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== Research in aHuman Project ==

'''Research Dilemma'''

After several years of running aHuman project it became clear that research is very important part of the project.

* definitely, aHuman is related to coding, without access to expensive equipment, neurobiological procedures and owful technologies like lesion study or staining methods.
* the approach of aHuman development uses the fact that biological mind architecture is virtually the same in human and monkey, cat and rat with minor differences
* in the same time it is the only scheme which produces conscious alive beings on Earth

'''Research Tasks'''

It leads to the statement that there are 2 ways to build aHuman - using some newly invented approach and repeating human model. When having strong intentions to build not a toy or calculator and above considerations, aHuman project inevitably selected more reliable way of following biological human architecture.

* unfortunately, nobody understands how human architecture works
* nobody understands exact set of components comprising this architecture, what interactions occur among these components and for what functions
* nevertheless, neurobiology exists for several centuries and up to the moment neuroscience has collected mountains of data for components, connectivity and functional implications
* for the purpose of structuring the area is divided into 3 layes - macro-circuits (e.g. voluntary movements), local circuits (like neocortical processing) and neural processing (like excitation or inhibition)

It is important to understand that research in aHuman project differs from scientific research:

* expected that aHuman researcher does not create new neurobiological facts, but reuses existing ones publicly available
* expected that aHuman researcher makes reasonable assumptions regarding validity of facts found
* expected that aHuman researcher selects the best of available sources when collecting data
* expected that aHuman researcher combines facts and promising ideas from various sources in single consistent view

'''Research in aHuman project is aimed to:'''

* build biological model with respect to aHuman targets
* project biological model to aHuman targets

== Research Steps ==

* start with identifying the theme with short well-defined name and position in the whole aHuman project research
* create page which will be primary page of research, in almost all cases it will be the only page
* link created page from one of aHuman research framework pages
* rewrite framework directory if required - after informing owner of related page
* prepare page structure - heading section to facilitate navigation, Diagrams, References
* collect information, trying to limit text to minimum, preferring referencing good diagrams
* used sources should be linked in References section
* finally research ends with having specific content sections which present the model of considered fenomenon in short and useful form
* model explained should allow implementation - expected that all non-technical challengeable questions regarding the theme have been answered
* let know the owner of related upper framework page about finishing the research