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Well, to me it seems that fine grained brain scanning would need something like Laplace's demon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon http://en.wikip
by bfrs 14y ago
Well, to me it seems that fine grained brain scanning would need something like Laplace's demon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon
- zanny 14y agoFortunately, neurons are still orders of magnitude above atoms in terms of volumetric density. So it is not that bad. Simulating all of the atoms in the volume of a brain individually might be a pain.
- bfrs 14y ago@zanny: A lot of the action in the brain seems to take place at the synapses. These are much smaller structures, and a useful brain scan will need to make precise measurements of the strength of each synapse. I need to study this more closely, but at the moment, I think these measurements maybe impeded by the uncertainty principle.