Brains
+ AI

ContinuingThe opening Issue 1 inquiry is published. Later entries remain questions and research commitments until their evidence files are complete.

1. If We Simulated Every Neuron, Would We Have a Brain?

   WEEKLY 01 / published inquiry

   The published opening inquiry asks what “equivalent” could mean when comparing a biological brain with a simulation: behavior, causal organization, learning, subjective experience, or material identity.

   It examines neuronal computation, glia, memory, substrate independence, embodiment, duplication, and the evidence that could change its conclusion.

   Read the Issue 1 inquiry

2. Build a ladder of models

   Planned / evidence map

   Compare what is represented at several levels: abstract units, spiking neurons, cellular compartments, biochemical dynamics, network-body interaction, and environment.

   The ladder is a planned research artifact. No sources or model comparisons have been entered yet.

3. Design discriminating interventions

   Planned / test design

   A convincing equivalence claim needs more than matching examples. What controlled perturbation would make two systems diverge if a supposedly irrelevant biological detail actually matters?

   The thread will collect proposed tests and record what each test can establish—and what it cannot.

4. Keep experience separate

   Open / conceptual file

   Functional evidence and claims about subjective experience may require different arguments. The investigation will label the transition whenever one is used to support the other.

   No position on machine consciousness is asserted in this prototype.