Carbon Copies Dr. Randal Koene believes Fruit Fly Brain Emulation Likely to Be Achieved in 2019

Randal Koene is an expert on brain emulation. He gave a talk in 2013 and discussed 100,000 neuron fruit fly brain emulation.

If we see the same sort of development in getting activity data from the brain as we saw with the structure, then perhaps by 2018 it would be acceptable to, say, come up with the project where you say let’s take Drosophila, this fruit fly with 100,000 neurons, and we’re going to get both the activity data and the structure data, and we’re going to put it together and we’re going to make an emulation of that, or try to make an emulation of a fruit fly brain. So perhaps by the year 2018, that’s a project you could start.

I attended a 2014 talk by Randal Koene where he described the likelihood of a 100,000 neuron fruit fly brain emulation by 2019.

Randal has a company funded to develop a neural operating system so that all of the separate brain emulation projects can be more easily integrated.

There is a pathway to brain emulation via more and more advanced brain prosthetics and better sensors and mapping of the brain

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