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by David Turell , Wednesday, September 09, 2009, 14:28 (5553 days ago) @ xeno6696

Apropos of my comment that recognizing a brain area that lights up for a given stimulus doesn't really tell you how it is working 'inside': -The study shown below identifies an area of the hippocampus that may be a schizophrenia trigger:-http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/908/1-
 
> Computing (as I mentioned when I first joined) takes an entirely different approach to such a question. It asks us to literally build a model of what it is we're trying to study, because at least in computer science, it can't be said you understand something without being able to build a working model of it. 
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>> For the first time--through the "magic" of model-building we're figuring out the complexities of biochemistry. -I doubt that we can ever model any area of the brain. Do you do a proxy model or an exact replication of each synaptic connection, with their innate ability to modify. Computers do not live and self-modify.