Joscha Bach: Why We Still Can't Simulate a Worm's Brain

A cognitive scientist who's spent twenty years building cognitive architectures says the entire connectome project is mapping the wrong layer of the brain — and a 302-neuron worm is the proof. Joscha Bach is co-founder of the California Institute for Machine Consciousness and one of the most original thinkers on mind, computation, and the substrate of cognition. We cover: why mapping every synapse in C. elegans for forty years still hasn't produced a working simulation, what neurons might actually be doing if they aren't the computers, why mind uploading rests on an unexamined assumption, the telegraph-wire analogy that reframes the whole field of neuroscience, and the experimental result that would change his mind. Neurons may be the wires. Not the chips. 📬 Get the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: https://briankeating.com/yt 🌠 Have a .edu email and live in the USA 🇺🇸? You automatically win a meteorite: https://BrianKeating.com/edu 🔔 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 🎯 Support Into the Impossible on Patreon — get my weekly M.A.G.I.C. Message, unfiltered bonus content, and live monthly Office Hours with me: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating ⭐ Join this channel for perks, monthly Office Hours, and your name in the Member Roster at the end of every episode: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join 📚 My books: Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir): http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U Galileo's Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un 🌐 More: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating ✍️ Blog: https://briankeating.com/blog 🎙️ Audio-only: https://briankeating.com/podcast #intotheimpossible #briankeating #science #physics #astronomy #cosmology #podcast #universe