Can neural networks help copy the brain?

The only pity is that I will not have to live in this beautiful time - neither me nor you. N.Nekrasov.

They say that the brain can be modeled on a computer, neural networks are a model of the brain, you can copy the human mind.

Actually, this is not the case at all. Unfortunately, in the brain signals are transmitted by electrochemical means. Each neuron at the same time contains from one thousand to hundreds of thousands of connections. During the day, thousands of connections are destroyed, and new ones are formed.
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But that's not all! By themselves, electrical impulses only induce a neuron to a certain reaction.
The fact is that the electro- chemical method of information transfer means that special chemical reactions are used in the transfer of information in the brain. The mechanism is described in some detail in this post .

In general, we add that there are up to 100 billion neurons in the brain, and such a combination of variants is obtained that it is impossible to model this system at this stage of human development.

First, due to the dynamics of the restructuring of the neural connections in the brain - as long as there is no such three-dimensional scanner.

Secondly, due to hardware limitations.

I want to believe that Google will be able to simulate the brain. But I only think that we will not have to live to the moment when we copy our consciousness and continue to live.

I will conclude with a quote from an interview with Sergey Savelyev, a doctor of biological sciences .

- All this, of course, is interesting, Sergey Vyacheslavovich. But I came here with another question: I am interested in the possibility of transferring consciousness to other carriers.
- Chivo-oh? You should not have come here, but to Kanatchikov's dacha.
I burst out laughing. I like these scientists positively. Ruthless, like a samurai!
- With the cottage we will weather a bit. I generally opponent villas. I am to you as a brainer ...
- Yes, this is insanity, like neurocomputers! People who talk about the transfer of consciousness, do not even have basic ideas about the structure of the brain!
I strongly protested:
- The brain is a material structure. So, it can be copied, modeled. If we have a machine that runs on electricity ...
- It is the physiologists brain works on electricity! - Saveliev tapped the ashtray with his pipe, like knuckles on a dull head. - They since Bekhtereva do not differ in intelligence. Electrical signals are sent to the muscles, and meaningful information is transmitted to the brain electrochemically, through synapses. The idiot engineers are trying to simulate the work of the brain on a computer using electric signals and primitive processors! It is even funny. Sick and architecture and logic. The brain has one property. Each neuron, which has connections with neighboring cells from ten thousand to a million, every day several connections destroy and build new ones. And this means that in order to model the human brain, we need to create a computer in which there would be 150 billion processors, and inside each processor we need to re-solder the contacts for the Chinese with a soldering iron. It cannot be done programmatically.

(With hope) Or Saveliev is wrong? What are the scientific papers that deal with accurate biological modeling of the brain?