The Brain Emulation Challenge

This is a draft version of the Brain Emulation Challenge video.
This version is intended for an audience with some neuroscience background or interest.
This video is provided with the hope to generate useful critical feedback for improvements.
Why take the brain emulation challenge? Why take a challenge that is providing virtual brain data from generated neural tissue?
If your system identification and reconstruction method successfully discovers the neural circuit and translates its meaningful cognitive function, which was hidden in the data your method analyzed, and about which we know everything, for which we can verify and validate exactly how well the reconstructed result performs a specific function, then we have much stronger reason to believe claims about reconstructions and discovered function from unknown biological neural tissue.
It is a way to test qualitatively and quantitatively if a proposed method can indeed discover and extract what it is meant to find, establishing trust that it is able to deliver a specific and correct working model based on collected brain data.

[@akison1980]

Excellent video, very concise and informative. Could definitely use some links to the challenges in the description. Why is persistent memory such a hard problem to solve? Is it complexity, or a failure to understand how biomechanical processes give rise to emergent consciousness behaviour? Do you think it is solvable, or will be solved in our lifetimes?

[@armandoperezgutierrez1382]

Thanks to imform.

[@ci6516]

I don’t have a background in health or biology, but my background is in computer science and it’s always interesting to me to see other disciplines leverage our technology for more than just products .

[@devinbae9914]

Great!! The concept makes a lot of sense, however given how divided the neuroscience community is on a variety of issues, and given the gamification problem with Kaggle (ie. people making crappy models optimized to simply "win" rather than actually perform well), this approach should be adjusted. Proper delineation between theoretical concepts and proper mechanisms is extremely important, however part of the problem currently is disagreement over precisely what these mechanisms might be, their boundaries, functions, etc.

[@user-vp3ko3xm6p]

quantum computing? for translation problem?? could use the internet as neurological system??

[@EmulationOnline]

Interesting, does carbon copies plan to run such a competition?