[ExI] another step towards uploading

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 04:44:06 UTC 2013


On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
> Ah, I think you misread me (in an interesting direction). I was not talking
> about dendritic tree computation, just finding out what was in the different
> synapses. If you do not know whether they are glutaminergic or dopaminergic,
> it doesn't matter how much you try to brute force what the rest of the cell
> is doing.

### Oh, ok :)

I would guess that the nanoscale MRS should be able to read the type
of synapse, since neurotransmitters, being small molecules, tend to
have clear MR spectra, so they should be easier to tell apart than
e.g. receptors or other proteins.

Rafal



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