Building a Brain in Pure Python

This post originally appeared on Medium. Cross-posting it here for the dev.to community. Six months ago I gave myself a challenge: build the entire pipeline for whole-brain simulation, in pure Python, on a single laptop. From raw imaging to consciousness metrics. End-to-end. No black boxes. Today I'm opening up the first preview. Whole Brain Emulation v0.1 — a connectome-level neural simulation framework with Hodgkin–Huxley channels, multi-compartment cable equations, STDP plasticity, glia,...