Imagine if you were able to record from every neuron in an awake behaving animal with 60\% (drosophila), 75\% (mouse) or an even greater (macaque) percent of the same genes that produce every cell in your body [1]. Imagine if you could trace every neuron in the brain of that animal and reconstruct a complete and accurate wiring diagram for that animal's brain. 

Suppose you were able to construct a dataset combining those functional recordings with the anatomical and structural information describing that animal’s central nervous system and that you were able to align that dataset with a precise account of the animals activity in the corresponding environmental context in which that activity manifest itself.

I would maintain that you now have enough information to learn a model you could use to simulate that animal and predict its behavior from environmental stimuli. Moreover, I believe we can infer, not just a black box behavioral model, but extract the computational and algorithmic essence of what is going on in the brain and nervous system of the animal so as to build better AI systems and exploit the secrets of how brains such as ours can operate continuously for nearly a century using only 20 W \emdash{} 1/5 of our total power consumption \emdash{} to perform computational feats we are only just beginning to match in engineered systems using racks of powerful servers each of which consumes on average between 400 and 4000 W depending on the number of CPU’s per server [3].

[1]
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\item \emdash{} genetic variation between two human beings can be up to 0.5\% (99.5\% similarity).
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\item \emdash{} chimpanzees are 96\% to 98\% similar to humans, depending on how it is calculated. 
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\item \emdash{} 75\% of mouse genes have equivalents in humans. 
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\item \emdash{} 90\% of the mouse genome could be lined up with a region on the human genome [2] 
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\item \emdash{} 99\% of mouse genes turn out to have analogues in humans.
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\item \emdash{} the fruit fly (Drosophila) shares about 60\% of its DNA with humans.
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[2] [{\urlh{https://www.genome.gov/page.cfm?pageID=10005831}{SOURCE}}]

[3] [{\urlh{http://www.vertatique.com/average-power-use-server}{SOURCE}}]

