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I’m familiar with some of those, but they don’t digitally map thought and then read that map. At least not the last time I looked into them… Do they now?

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Here is something close to tge cutting edge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSG3_JvnCkU

What they are creating is a connectome. A list of all neurons and their connection.

They are down to 34nm slices.

I said 2nm because the smallest features are 5nm inside the gap between neurons called synapses.

Presumably, there are no features enconding information smaller than that in the brain.

But just the connectome might be enough to replicate a consciousness.

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Very interesting! Maybe once we understand the structure, we can recreate what’s behind the structure. Not sure if that’s a good thing, but it certainly is intriguing.

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I don’t think we need to understand tge structure. Just create a fidel digital copy and run it according to electrochemical rules we have from physics and I believe a largely intact consciousness will emerge.

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