Ten Years Ago A Neuroscientist Said He Could Build A Human Brain Within Ten Years. It Didn’t Happen

Henry Markram’s goal wasn’t to create a simplified version of the brain, but agloriously complex facsimile, down to the constituent neurons, theelectrical activity coursing along them, and even the genes turning onand off within them. From the outset, the criticism to this approach wasvery widespread, and to many other neuroscientists, its bottom-upstrategy seemed implausible to the point of absurdity.– The Atlantic