- A quick calculation shows that addressing every neuron and synapse in a 100-billion-neuron, 600-trillion-synapse human brain requires only about 50 bits, making 64-bit pointers more than sufficient for whole-brain emulation.  
- The “Brain Emulation Roadmap” report (linked: diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/brain-emulation-roadmap-report.pdf) was recommended as background reading on this addressing question.  
- Discussion of the EU Human Brain Project (HBP) highlighted skepticism about its neuron-addressing scheme and broader criticism that the field is locked into an overly modular, neuron-centric paradigm.  
- A BRAIN-project–style idea was mentioned in which each neuron would be given a unique DNA “barcode” on a ticker-tape–like strand that records activity, enabling later readout of both identity and firing history.  
- Participants argued that modern neuroscience suffers from “paradigmatic monoculture,” centralized publishing, and citation-graph lock-in, stifling contrarian or alternative models of brain function.  
- The explosion of scientific output was framed as an information-management problem: how to filter relevant data streams and advertise one’s own results without drowning in overhead.  
- A proposal was floated to distribute kanzure’s curated “diyhplus” library via a BitTorrent swarm—possibly using BEP 35/39 or BitTorrent Sync—to avoid single-server overload and keep the archive automatically updated.