Mouse brain simulated on computer

BBC ^ | 4/27/07

[Izzy Dunne]

Mouse brain simulated on computer

All right; who ELSE saw that headline and immediately thought of Howard Dean?

[TASMANIANRED]

Mouse Brain....Eat...Sex...Eat....Sex

[John Jorsett]

Only half? They should have started with something simpler, like Rosie O’Donnell’s brain.

[Raycpa]

[GingisK]

Ah! I see you understand the question.

[Nick Danger]

Considering how big they are, cockroaches can't have very big brains. And yet, some of the things cockroaches do (like playing dead) are downright clever.

Computers as clever as cockroaches would be scary.

[mewzilla]

I squeek, therefore I am.

[patton]

But is it legal to turn it off? Or ethical?

[TheBattman]

Mouse brain simulated on computer

Cool - so computer scientists have already achieved AI greater than the liberal mind! Awesome!

[Interesting Times]

And yet, some of the things cockroaches do (like playing dead) are downright clever.

They're remarkably patient, too. I have a couple in my basement that have been playing dead for months.

[verum ago]

And yet, some of the things cockroaches do (like playing dead) are downright clever.

...not when you use a follow-up whack...

[chaos_5]

LOL

[cgbg]

eat

We feed all our field mice when they come to visit.

Unfortunately for them it is mouse poison.

So let's hope this machine is smarter than all the dead mice. :-)

[adorno]

Mouse Brain....Eat...Sex...Eat....Sex

You missed part of the article. The article said "half the brain of a mouse", which means half the smarts of a mouse. Therefore, instead of "eat, sex, eat, sex", it would be "eat, eat, eat, eat". Which would mean that if all they do is "eat" and have no sex, they would go extinct. Same for the reverse: "sex, sex, sex", which would cause them to die of hunger.

[Moonman62]

I thought that was Bill Clinton’s brain?

[Moonman62]

Can it sing Daisy?

[COBOL2Java]

Mouse brain simulated on computer

[M203M4]

There are groups trying to simulate brain function, and there are other groups trying to use biological tissues themselves to perform fast calculations (biocomputation, including DNA computing and neurocomputers aka "wetware").

On a much smaller scale, another "complementary pairing" is the use of computation to simulate atomic, molecular, surface, and bulk physics and chemistry (quantum Monte Carlo, density functional theory); the flip side, if you will, is the use of atomic/molecular systems themselves to perform calculations (quantum computation).

[Right Wing Assault]

Their simulated half-mouse brain is no match for the mousetrap simulation I have ready to unleash on it. It is a FULL mousetrap. Heh, heh! I cheat.