The Fading Dream of the Computer Brain
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Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-fading-dream-of-the-computer-brain/
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Author: Noah Hutton
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Tags: Computational Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Simulation, Scientific American
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References: A brain in a supercomputer, Blue Brain Project
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technology hype often leads to unreasonable expectation
- hype relies on a selective amnesia for the unfulfilled promised of the past, that way enthusiasm is replenished
- [seletive amnesia: how does it relate to the Mandela Effect? Is it the opposite?]
- hype relies on a selective amnesia for the unfulfilled promised of the past, that way enthusiasm is replenished
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with the Blue Brain Project things weren’t going as planned, then a bigger endevour was necessary: Human Brain Project, funded with a billion Euros by the EU
- controversy, open letter by 800 neuroscientists disagreeing with Markram
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seeing simulated neural activity: how do you know whether the activity was right or wrong?
- how can a perfectly fixed array of signals simulate the impredictability of biology?
- bugs are quickly fixed while neurons don’t always have perfectly fixed action potential, cells mutate and change impredictably
- how can a perfectly fixed array of signals simulate the impredictability of biology?
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Computational Neuroscience is gradually leaving behind biological brains in search of perfect algorithms