By 2024 scientists will have fully decoded (scanned and reverse-engineered) the human brain.
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“Certainly within the next 20 to 25 years we will succeed in fully decoding the human brain just as we're now nearing completion of the decoding of the human genome.”
- Said on
- 1 August 1999 · Moderated discussion with Kip Crosby, moderated by Michael S. Malone, from a Forbes / Nightline interview; the transcript page dates it to about August 1999 (approximate).
- Source
- Moderated Discussion · Forbes / ABC Nightline (transcript hosted by PPPL)
- Should come true
- 2024
- How sure they sounded
- certainly
- Categories
- TechnologyAIHealth
- Importance
- 4 of 5 · Fully understanding the human brain would transform medicine and AI worldwide.
Outcome
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By the end of 2024 the largest complete brain wiring map was the adult fruit fly connectome (about 140,000 neurons, published in Nature in October 2024). The human brain has about 86 billion neurons, and only a cubic millimetre fragment of human cortex had been mapped, so the human brain was nowhere near fully decoded.
- https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/complete-wiring-map-adult-fruit-fly-brain
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/largest-brain-map-ever-reveals-fruit-flys-neurons-in-exquisite-detail/
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