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by David Turell , Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 16:54 (5312 days ago) @ xeno6696

Modeling a human brain would essentially mean that we have several billion blocks of memory connected in various paths to each other. The biochemistry COULD be modeled, but to me that would be unnecessary complexity at this point. We need a 'best case' working model before we can start worrying about the finer chemical complexities... that we don't understand yet. We need both UNO's and Yale's systems to collect a ton of data before we can really do that part of it justice. 
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> The basic ideas are there, the computer languages we have available are in my opinion, sophisticated enough to allow us to give this a real try. While I mute my optimism, there can be no better way to understand something except from trying to build it. Of course, this is the humble opinion of an engineer, so take that as my own brand of perspectivism.-Thanks for the explanation. The biochemistry simply arranges for the ions to travel, and modifications of the neuron's output. Mimic that and the biochemistry is not important.