X-Message-Number: 13735 From: Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:05:57 EDT Subject: Re:understanding how the brain works+ QND steps << > Message #13729 > Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 07:35:59 -0400 > From: Thomas Donaldson <> > Subject: CryoNet #13724 - #13725 > > To Yvan: > > The problem, as I said before, is not with computing power but with > understanding of how brains work. Yes, this includes how individual > neurons work --- since those in our brain do little unless they work > together. This means that ANYONE who wants to produce a working brain, > even as an ACCURATE simulation in a computer, must first understand > how brains and neurons work in the first place. > Hi Thomas and all, The kind of knowledges you ask for will not come from the blue. It will need a brain scanner to see at molecular level how a brain works, not a single neuron, not even a bunch of neurons on a flat surface without glial cells nearby. The QND scanner will not be built from scratches, at least 3 steps will be requirred, the build back software will be too a multistage process. Each step will uses information recovered by the current cell/ brain analyser at hand. I think before the full brain reader is built, with 2000 elementary beams, each with 1000 different frequencies, a last step demonstrator with one beam and one frequency will be built. Before that, an X-ray interferometer with holographic capability (to see at a precise position in the 3rd dimension) must test the non- QND componments. Even these major steps must be further split out in more smaller scale projects. Each is not only a technological step to go to the next system, it is also an investigation instrument of its own and must bring some new knowledges about the brain in particular and cells in general. Yvan Bozzonetti. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13735