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categories: ["minds", "foundations"]categories: ["minds", "foundations"]tags: ["emulation", "connectomics", "simulation", "consciousness", "computational neuroscience", "uploading"]tags: ["emulation", "connectomics", "simulation", "consciousness", "computational neuroscience", "uploading"]summary: "A proposed procedure for reproducing a particular mind by scanning one brain's structure in detail, building a computational model from the scan, and running it."summary: "A proposed procedure for reproducing a particular mind by scanning one brain's structure in detail, building a computational model from the scan, and running it."updated: "2026-07-27"updated: "2026-08-23"issues: ["The claim that groups are building dynamical models from the fly connectome carries no source."]issues: ["The claim that groups are building dynamical models from the fly connectome carries no source."]------ lines 59–64 → 59–6845 unchanged lines not shown
## The pipeline## The pipeline ### Scanning### Scanning ```figure{"key": "connectome-tractography", "caption": "What scanning can do today: diffusion-MRI tractography averaged over 20 people, resolving millimetre-scale fibre bundles. Emulation would need the synapse-level wiring of one brain — many orders of magnitude finer."}``` The scan must capture whatever the model needs. At minimum that means the complete synaptic wiringThe scan must capture whatever the model needs. At minimum that means the complete synaptic wiringof the brain — the connectome — including which neuron contacts which, where, and through what kindof the brain — the connectome — including which neuron contacts which, where, and through what kindremoved, struck through added, underlinedLine numbers count the serialised markdown of each revision, frontmatter included.
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