How do our brains work? 🧠 After 10 years of Connectomics at Google, we’re just getting started. Looking ahead, the team at Google Research, with partners at Harvard University and other institutions, is working to map a mouse’s hippocampus, the portion of the brain involved in learning and memory. Understanding how brains from many types of organisms are wired can help researchers better understand neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s disease and answer fundamental questions, such as how memories form. Get the latest research on mapping the human brain → https://goo.gle/4cHFYDE
Claudio Pinhanez
2mo
And whales have 500,000,000,000 neurons (according to Google).
Gavin Schelske
2mo
10,000 for drosophila? It’s roughly 100k right?
This is kind of misleading as it does not include the number of connections of neurons which differs significantly between species.
Grady Booch
2mo
The connectome is the truth, but not the whole truth.
Aaron Hemmelgarn
2mo
Why a singularity AGI is not possible to fully recreate and match the human brain. AI may be faster and smarter at pattern recognition, but it can't compete with human ingenuity and our ability to adapt on the fly in a second and completely shift the mind outside the box. We're too unpredictable.
Understanding our brains is akin to decoding a cosmic blueprint. Here’s a twist: did you know the brain’s storage capacity is estimated to be around 2.5 petabytes? That’s equivalent to about 3 million hours of TV shows! Google’s Connectomics work, mapping a mouse’s hippocampus, could revolutionize our grasp on memory and learning. Surprisingly, cephalopods like octopuses have also shown advanced memory capabilities despite vastly different brain structures. Studying such diverse organisms might unlock unprecedented insights into neurological disorders and memory mechanisms. #NeuroScienceRevolution #BrainMysteries #MemoryUnlock
Carlos Henriquez
2mo
This is actually quite informative. However, it might be worth analyzing the evolutionary factors leading to it since we all stem from different species and yet seem to share the neuron as an element.
Hence we say humans as most evolved creature, But irony is Science cannot locate mind which is tremendous instrument which can shape human lives
Ayaz Hyder
2mo
Extrapolating out the human brain 🧠 would be expected to be mapped by 2175, about 150 years from this post.
Data Scientist
2moHey, c.elegans is the roundworm with 302 neurons. And the worm on the image does not look at all like a c. elegans. Looks more like an annelid ;)