{"id":3798,"date":"2016-06-22T21:39:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T04:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2016-06-22T21:39:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T04:39:15","slug":"the-implausible-task-of-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2016\/06\/22\/21\/39\/the-implausible-task-of-neuroscience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Implausible Task of Neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-offset-key=\"dkv8s-0-0\" data-editor=\"4461k\" data-block=\"true\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dkv8s-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dkv8s-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/05\/68515.html\">Reverse engineering the mind<\/a> from a functional decomposition of the brain.. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-offset-key=\"915it-0-0\" data-editor=\"4461k\" data-block=\"true\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"915it-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"915it-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-offset-key=\"f6kgh-0-0\" data-editor=\"4461k\" data-block=\"true\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f6kgh-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"f6kgh-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">What if you tried to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sciencemag.org\/pipeline\/archives\/2016\/06\/03\/11484\">use neuroscience&#8217;s current tools to reverse engineer one of the simplest microprocessors, the 1970s-era 6502<\/a>, and attempt a reconstruction of the continuum of its functional state?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f6kgh-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f6kgh-0-0\">Spoiler: <a href=\"http:\/\/biorxiv.org\/content\/biorxiv\/early\/2016\/05\/26\/055624.full.pdf\">it doesn&#8217;t work<\/a>. No consciousness uploading for you!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverse engineering the mind from a functional decomposition of the brain.. \u00a0 What if you tried to use neuroscience&#8217;s current tools to reverse engineer one of the simplest microprocessors, the 1970s-era 6502, and attempt&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[805,954,598],"tags":[1911,1634,1910,1451],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-simulation","category-singularity","tag-bunk","tag-neuroscience","tag-rapture","tag-singularity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}