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Russians create artificial human brain

wroot wroot at my-deja.com
Mon Apr 16 11:49:14 EST 2001


David Ehrens wrote:

> ...
>> > But he warned of the potential hazards of the scientific
>> > breakthrough, saying the brand new brain could turn into
>> > a Frankenstein's monster if it was mistreated.
>                                    ^^^
> Hoax alert!
> Most journalists would have used the subjunctive, "were".
> 

It could be a hoax. You won't find anything on Vitaly Valtsev on the 
Internet. Even a search for "Valtsev" alone produces only 8 matches on 
google. 

I'm still curious if it's true that human brain neurons are substatially 
different from the rest of the neurons, as far as modeling is concerned.

Wroot




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