I’d heard it said that the best human simulators required something like one laptop per neuron—I take it this is because cerebral cortex neurons are more demanding than any C. elegans neuron?
Right—some cortical neurons have 10,000 synapses, while the entire C. elegans nervous system has less than 8,000.
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I’d heard it said that the best human simulators required something like one laptop per neuron—I take it this is because cerebral cortex neurons are more demanding than any C. elegans neuron?
Right—some cortical neurons have 10,000 synapses, while the entire C. elegans nervous system has less than 8,000.