connectome

In comparison, even measuring the connectome is an insane problem, and modeling trillions of neurons to reveal brain function seems intractable.

So to answer your question, this current research is based purely on the connectome as the means to operate the robot and there is no plasticity other than the recursive nature of the connectome itself.

Preserving the connectome is probably insufficient for full restoration.

This is not a program that tells the robot to stop, reverse and change direction but the connectome.

The vascular system innervates throughout the brain like a secondary connectome, and is implicated in information processing as well.

The OpenWorm[1] project is doing exactly what you are suggesting - trying to map the connectome to a virtual body.

Each mouse is going to have different connectome, though hopefully we can distinguish major features more clearly now.

I doubt that the connectome is sufficient.

This is called the connectome of the brian as well.

A society that runs on robot slaves who are, nevertheless, intelligent by virtue of having a human neural connectome for a brain, is a slave society...

I believes many of these claims will be debunked as the 'The Human Connectome Project' and 'The Human Brain Project' nears completion.

I find it interesting and also sobering that the connectome of the C.

Indeed, The question I'd have is whether the connection-set or "connectome" is sufficient to actually describe the behavior of the organism.

C Elegans Connectome) and connecting to a robot so we can see an entire organism simulated from environment to a simulated "brain".

We actually have a mechanism we call the "poison pill" whereby we send the individual neurons of the simulated connectome a weighted value of -99999 and when the neuron reads this weight, it kills itself.

>"A society that runs on robot slaves who are, nevertheless, intelligent by virtue of having a human neural connectome for a brain, is a slave society.." Why the bloody hell would you do that!?

Connectome researchers like Seung are more interested in the connections between various systems that have evolved in the brain—systems that we actually understand very well from a behavioral standpoint.