Simulating 10**11 Izhikevich
<p>May 08, 2011 10:18 PM
 
he talks abt scholarpedia... he is editor in chief;  fractal  article by mandelbrot  etc.
 
person who makes the most accepted and useful edits is the next curator;
 
great photoshop of walter freeman in lord of the rings etc.
 
I am a mathematician... all I need is a paper, penicl and a trash basket...
too bad you're not a philosopher, you wudn't need the trash basket.
 
we need simulated brains....
 
gray matter microcircuitry
 
which model to use for thalamo-cortical neurons;
 
must be simple and plausible
 
22 possible properties
 
want model to have most properties but be efficient to compute
 
HH hodg huyxley  is prohibit expensive compuationally;
 
Morris-Lecar model...  concentrate on region of whether it fires or not
 
His model has 20 properties;
 
random networks with STDP   and dopamine
 
he shows 100,000 neruons  running Izikev neurons  get polysychrony.
 
"It's a jungle out there"  Gerry Edelman;
 
he shows cat cortex...  microcircuitry;
 
Modha comment.... Blue Brain is only 10X slower than real time with a model with a few million neurons.
 
 
 
 
 
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