[dharma1]

We need single neuron level mapping for any hope of a decent Brain-Computer Interface. Or even for really understanding how the brain works, in order to simulate it or progress in biologically inspired AI.

Neural lace looks promising. But wouldn't be the first to volunteer for one :)

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v13/n10/full/nmeth.3969....

Sidenote: I feel slightly uneasy about all this stuff.

On one level it is progressing our knowledge, but both the methods of the research (animal testing) and potential implications of deep human+machine symbiosis, combined with CRISPR on animals and humans, feel instinctively bad. It won't stop at curing disease.