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-ZeroRelevance- t1_iwpo1pn wrote

Reply to comment by vernes1978 in Decoding fMRI based brain activities and reconstructing images with accurate semantics and image features using diffusion model by MysteryInc152

You’re asking what would happen if all the neurons in your brain were rewired to be the same as mine? In a purely theoretical case, you would react exactly the same as I would, but in practice, the differences in the rest of our bodies would:

  1. mean that there may be some issues in sensing the world and controlling the body

  2. have that variation in stimulus lead to differences in the responses

On the other hand though, if you had a brain in a vat that was wired to be identical to mine, and also put my own brain in a vat, any given stimulus to either brain should give identical responses. Since there should be no fundamental difference between them.

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vernes1978 t1_iwqlhw5 wrote

I wasn't aware that the wiring (connectome) was the data.
I kinda assumed there was a electro-chemical factor involved where the neuron had different trigger conditions which was the result of a learning process.
I was imagining that these factors could be transfered to a brain with a different connectome.

Since this image prediction was possible using fMRI data, I was wondering if our connnectome could be similar enough that the transfer of this (assumed) electro-chemical state of neurons would result in a personality that is similar enough to represent the person who's electro-chemical state you transfered to a different brain (connectome-wise).

Although this is sciencefiction stuff, it would be an interresting question wether or not you could clone yourself into a standardized artificial brain, by copying these electro-chemical variations.

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-ZeroRelevance- t1_iws8y1g wrote

I’ll admit I didn’t really consider the actual neurons themselves as seperate to the wiring in my answer. Since neurons are created based on genetic code, every person’s neurons would likely react slightly differently, leading to a different end result. If you also consider the activation conditions to be different to the wiring, that would also obviously lead to pretty big differences, because the activation conditions are just as important as the wiring.

I just kind of combined both of those into my previous answer, so I concluded that there would be no differences. If it was solely the wiring, though, then there would likely still be big differences.

Keep in mind though that I’m far from an expert in anything to do with brains, just an enthusiast, and all of this is just my speculation based on what I know about brains and AI.

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