# MICrONS **Domain:** Functional Connectomics / Machine Intelligence **Doc Type:** Research Program Node **Maturity:** Published Research Infrastructure **Primary Source:** [[articles/The Art is Long|The Art is Long: Vespucci of Immortality]] **Related:** [[wiki/Connectomics|Connectomics]], [[wiki/FlyWire|FlyWire]], [[wiki/Digital Twin|Digital Twin]], [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|State Sufficiency Problem]] --- ## Definition **MICrONS** means **Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks**. The IARPA program combined dense structural reconstruction and functional imaging of mouse visual cortex to study how cortical structure and activity jointly support computation. ## Direction of Transfer The program's stated objective was to derive computational principles from biological cortex and use them to inform machine intelligence. Its public datasets support models that relate wiring, cell type, activity, and predicted response. ## Evidentiary Boundary MICrONS is not mind uploading and does not claim to preserve a person. It is evidence of a documented biological-circuit → measured structure/function → computational abstraction → machine-model pipeline. ## Sources / Provenance - [MICrONS program](https://www.iarpa.gov/research-programs/microns), IARPA. - [MICrONS Explorer](https://www.microns-explorer.org/).