Cyber ​​Elegans Project

Digitizing the human brain is, first of all, the dream of everyone, it is a panacea for all the problems of mankind, because where there is a copy of consciousness, there is AI, and here on the horizon teleportation, failure from wars, and any, most perfect and ingenious the mind can be simply copied and not even in one copy. Perhaps in this post I will omit moral, ethical and religious issues such as the existence and preservation of the human soul with such manipulations over the human consciousness, and I will write about a Russian project aimed at creating a copy of consciousness.

A bit of theory

Simplifying the human brain is a huge number of connecting conductors that are connected to each other in common nodes. It is for these connections that the electrical impulses that control us (or we them, it is still a question) are transmitted. And it seems that everything sounds simple enough - to digitize the GM bark, it’s enough just to copy everything. But the human brain includes 10 ^ 11 neurons and 10 ^ 15 interneuron connections. Such numbers are hard to imagine, not to write to the carrier.

But, for example, the nematode C. Elegans with this is all the simpler. In addition, this worm became the first multicellular creature whose gene was completely sequenced (i.e., the sequence of its genes was determined).



Perhaps that is why the Cyber ​​Elegans Project is now operating in the Akademgordk near Novosibirsk, the purpose of which is to simulate the nervous system of the C. Elegans nematode, including sensory cells. The model has already been created and placed in a virtual 3D environment with which it can even interact.

And recently, the development of scientists interested in television .