Is a conscious silicon brain achievable?
Neuroscience March 27, 2026 Yaghoub Fathollahi, Kawsar Alami
Two strategies for constructing a digital twin brain are outlined. The first involves decoding the unique brain activity for each mental faculty, creating digital twins, and connecting them to simulated neural circuits, but faces major data acquisition and computational challenges. The second, more practical approach reconstructs and simulates neural circuits from human brain organoids and assembloids, iteratively matching functional characteristics, then combines them with artificial intelligence to create a silicon brain. Converging this with AI avatars, embodied sense data, and metaverse environmental data may produce a complex system that could represent a level of consciousness, advancing understanding of mind and consciousness mechanisms and improving brain models for medical science.