Joscha Bach: Why We Still Can't Simulate a Mouse's Brain

A cognitive scientist who's spent twenty years building cognitive architectures says the entire connectome project is mapping the wrong layer of the brain — and a 302-neuron worm is the proof.

Joscha Bach is co-founder of the California Institute for Machine Consciousness and one of the most original thinkers on mind, computation, and the substrate of cognition. We cover: why mapping every synapse in C. elegans for forty years still hasn't produced a working simulation, what neurons might actually be doing if they aren't the computers, why mind uploading rests on an unexamined assumption, the telegraph-wire analogy that reframes the whole field of neuroscience, and the experimental result that would change his mind.

Neurons may be the wires. Not the chips.

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