Whether that’s a showstopper depends on how important you think the fine-grained structure of white matter is.
Considering that damaging large amounts of white matter gives you things like lobotomy and alien hand syndrome, or sensorimotor impairment, and that subcortical structures are vitally important...
Sorry, I probably should have more more specific. What I should really say is ‘how important the unique fine-grained structure of white matter is.’
If the structure is relatively generic between brains, and doesn’t encode identity-crucial info in its microstructure, we may be able to fill it in using data from other brains in the future.
Considering that damaging large amounts of white matter gives you things like lobotomy and alien hand syndrome, or sensorimotor impairment, and that subcortical structures are vitally important...
Sorry, I probably should have more more specific. What I should really say is ‘how important the unique fine-grained structure of white matter is.’
If the structure is relatively generic between brains, and doesn’t encode identity-crucial info in its microstructure, we may be able to fill it in using data from other brains in the future.