Neural Mapping - Bryant McGill

# Neural Mapping **Entity class:** Technology, method, or technical system **Domain:** Neuroscience / Brain Atlases / Measurement **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[BRAIN Initiative]], [[Allen Institute]], [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]], [[Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]] --- ## Definition **Neural mapping** comprises methods for representing the brain’s cells, connections, activity and functional organization across spatial and temporal scales. ## Continuity Context Maps can improve diagnosis, modeling and reconstruction, but representational completeness is not automatically personal continuity. A map may describe a system without reproducing its ongoing causal history, embodiment or subjective point of view. ## Backlinks [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] · [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] · [[BRAIN Initiative]] · [[Allen Institute]] ## Relationships  This entry is routed through [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], and [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section.  ## Read First in the Wiki  - [[wiki/Connectome Reconstruction Infrastructure|Connectome Reconstruction Infrastructure]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Neural Mapping** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] — supplies the related technology, method, or technical system context needed to place **Neural Mapping** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Neural Mapping** within the wider system.  ## Related Work in the Corpus  - In [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], **III. The Reusable Human Prior** provides the narrative context for **Neural Mapping**: A language and multimodal model supplies language, culture, common social knowledge, conceptual structure, historical context, symbolic reasoning, and much of the learned environment in which a person developed.  ## Research Edges  #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] **Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-0836 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Neural Mapping.md`. - **HR-0837 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Neural Mapping.md`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0361 — [[wiki/Connectome Reconstruction Infrastructure|Connectome Reconstruction Infrastructure]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Connectome Reconstruction Infrastructure.md`. - **HR-0829 — [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture.md`.  ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "Brain-machine interfaces continue to be improved, initially for physically impaired people, but eventually to provide a seamless boundary between people and the monitoring network." > **— Marti Hearst**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Brain Interfaces May Dissolve Into the Monitoring Network by Marti Hearst|Brain Interfaces May Dissolve Into the Monitoring Network by Marti Hearst]] > "The only viable approach to construct a machine that has the attributes of the human brain is to copy the neuronal circuits underlying thinking." > **— Leo M. Chalupa**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Humanlike Machines Must Copy Neuronal Circuits by Leo M. Chalupa|Humanlike Machines Must Copy Neuronal Circuits by Leo M. Chalupa]] From [[wiki/Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance|Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance]]: The Overview opens its convergence program by spanning matter from nanoscale structure to the brain. > "We stand at the threshold of a new renaissance in science and technology, based on a comprehensive understanding of the structure and behavior of matter from the nanoscale up to the most complex system yet discovered, the human brain." > **— M. C. Roco and W. S. Bainbridge**, *2002, Overview of Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance* [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/A New Scientific Renaissance Begins at the Human Brain by M. C. Roco and W. S. Bainbridge|A New Scientific Renaissance Begins at the Human Brain by M. C. Roco and W. S. Bainbridge]] From [[wiki/Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance|Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance]]: The 2002 “next two decades” forecast documents ambition; it should be evaluated against actual later mapping work. > "Reverse engineering of the human brain may be accomplished in the next two decades that would allow for better understanding of its functions." > **— M. C. Roco and W. S. Bainbridge**, *2002, Overview of Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance* [[reminders/Connectomics/Reverse Engineering the Brain Was a Twenty Year Goal by M. C. Roco and W. S. Bainbridge|Reverse Engineering the Brain Was a Twenty Year Goal by M. C. Roco and W. S. Bainbridge]] > “What would a diagram that gave a complete understanding of imagination need to be?” > **— Andrew Barron**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question* [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/What Would a Complete Diagram of Imagination Require by Andrew Barron|What Would a Complete Diagram of Imagination Require by Andrew Barron]]