_cool, but also concerning... _
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Computers Made From Human Brain Tissue Are Coming. Are We Prepared? : ScienceAlert

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational hardware.

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How do you think the brain "stores" our personal memories? 🧠

This is a question for everyone out there, especially for non-neuroscientists and regardless of education level or familiarity with biology.

I'd just like to hear all your ideas and theories, however crazy they may sound. Be as specific or vague as you like. Please do not look at the answers before giving yours so you are not influenced.
More specifically:

1. What do you think happens (in the brain) at the time of experiencing something that we will end up remembering?
2. What do you think happens (in the brain) when, later, we remember that thing?

Boosts welcome but answers even more welcome!

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@elduvelle
Not entirely; perhaps you feel strongly about it because you also work on hippocampus and spatial navigation.

To me, cell types are a useful categorisation, but not a determining one. In some ways I'm reminded of the use of brain regions and their functional relationships as a surrogate for the actual synaptic connectivity diagrams, or connectomes.

Cells as entities can be genetically and experimentally manipulated, so we tend to assign attributes and properties to them, when they in good part only have those properties as a function of the inputs they receive and the specific position in the circuit that they hold.

There's also an absurd amount of plasticity at the circuit level when some neurons are missing or inactivated. That is one characteristic of biological networks: robustness to perturbation and graceful degradation of system function rather than catastrophic.

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