[falcor84]

Not the parent, but yes.

We're still a bit far from this scientifically, but to the best of my knowledge, there's nothing preventing us from following "by hand" the activation pattern in a human nervous system that would lead to phrasing the same sentence. And I don't see how this has anything to do with consciousness.

[nassimm]

We absolutely cannot do that at the moment. We do not know how to simulate a brain nor if we ever will be able to.

[falcor84]

Just to clarify,I wasn't implying simulation, but rather something like single-unit recordings[0] of a live human brain as it goes about it. I think that this is the closest to "following" an artificial neutral network, which we also don't know how to "simulate" short of running the whole thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-unit_recording