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by ronjobber 3009 days ago
We have the connectome of C. elegans, yes, but we are still pretty far from understanding how it 'works'. The functional connections are still an active area of research, and it is greatly complicated by connections not explicit in the connectome (neuromodulator effects), as well as the internal dynamics of neurons and non-linear network dynamics.

The connectome is necessary, but far from sufficient, to 'understand' a brain, even one made from only 302 neurons as in C. elegans.