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Comment Re:Not much (Score 1) 108

And probably never will, because there are hundreds of them, and this kind of work on a living brain is very difficult.

It will happen eventually, our visualization techniques and technology are getting better and better. It's just a matter of time.

Comment Re:"probably. We're not 100% sure about it...." (Score 3, Informative) 108

It's pretty clear that you're not trying to understand, you're just trying to argue. That is, you've turned your brain off.

The ability to read hasn't put more than 5 thousand years of evolutionary pressure on humanity, if any. Turn your brain back on, try to see what is there (not what you wish).

Comment Re:Not much (Score 5, Interesting) 108

The real difficulty in answering the question is that we don't know what the brain is really doing.

We have some deep mathematical analysis of what neural networks are doing, but on the brain side, we have some guesses. We don't even have a confident analysis on all the types of neurons yet:

there are tens or even hundreds of different types of neurons. In fact, researchers are still trying to devise a way to neatly classify the huge variety of neurons that exist in the brain.

It's not easy to look in the brain, you can do an MRI but you can't see the activity of the individual neurons easily (unlike in an NN).

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