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From: David@longley.demon.co.uk (David Longley)
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Subject: Re: At the Frontier of Knowledge: The Human Brain.
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In article <3n4pnq$9vi@nyx10.cs.du.edu>
           anon1fd0@nyx10.cs.du.edu "Name withheld by request" writes:
> 
>      Recently, I asked about the human brain.
>      I would like to ask another question, similar to what
> I asked before:
>  
>       Can the human brain be reversed-engineered?
> 
>       This is not a flippant, or lazy question--it is serious,
>       and I am looking for some serious answers. 
 
>           Thanks for any replies.
> 
>              Yours,
>                
>               -Jon Bazemore
>                Auraria Campus 
>                Denver, Colorado

Isn't this precisely what neural network technology is essentialy doing. Take
a neurone, work out its properties (refractory period etc etc) and then make
a mathematical model of it. Then start chaining them together in layers. 
Feed input into the top layer and see what comes out at the bottom layer.
-- 
David Longley
