Hi ! Very interesting post, I agree that connectomics might be most interesting for the “other stuff” and perhaps not the cortical areas. Well sourced post overall, but I wanted to add my perspective, as someone recently come to work in micro scale connectomics. I think you are not crazy to hope for those timelines, but I think you are unfortunately wrong. Led by our lab at Princeton, we have released the first adult whole brain fruit fly connectome: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.27.546656v1 it is a great milestone, and some are already starting to do whole drosophila brain emulation (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.02.539144v1) based on it, to some initial success. I think you should recalibrate your... (read more)
Hi ! Very interesting post, I agree that connectomics might be most interesting for the “other stuff” and perhaps not the cortical areas. Well sourced post overall, but I wanted to add my perspective, as someone recently come to work in micro scale connectomics. I think you are not crazy to hope for those timelines, but I think you are unfortunately wrong. Led by our lab at Princeton, we have released the first adult whole brain fruit fly connectome: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.27.546656v1 it is a great milestone, and some are already starting to do whole drosophila brain emulation (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.02.539144v1) based on it, to some initial success. I think you should recalibrate your... (read more)