Why It’s So Hard to Build a Human Brain
7 min readNov 11, 2021
Now there’s a tough question to ask. Biologists, neuroscientists, and computer scientists will all give you slightly different answers, but in the end, one theme unites them: the brain is really, really, really complex.
Biology has made progress in brain-building — in late 2020, scientists at Cambridge announced they had grown artificial tissues known as organoids that behaved neurobiologically…