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+title: Complete brain wiring diagrams
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+status: partial
+year: 1972
+statement: Can the complete synaptic wiring of a brain be mapped, and does it explain behavior?
+space: neuroscience
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+The fly connectome was mapped with a mix of machine segmentation and crowd proofreading. A mouse brain is about 500 times larger. Whether wiring alone predicts behavior is itself an open question: C. elegans has been mapped for decades and is not yet fully understood.
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+Closed 1986, C. elegans (302 neurons); 2024, the adult fruit fly brain (about 140,000 neurons), FlyWire.
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+## Sources
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+- [Wikipedia: Connectome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectome)
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+[[Space:neuroscience|The brain]] · [[Continent:mind|Mind]]
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The fly connectome was mapped with a mix of machine segmentation and crowd proofreading. A mouse brain is about 500 times larger. Whether wiring alone predicts behavior is itself an open question: C. elegans has been mapped for decades and is not yet fully understood.
Closed 1986, C. elegans (302 neurons); 2024, the adult fruit fly brain (about 140,000 neurons), FlyWire.