A digital twin of a human mind? It isn’t science fiction. By Shailee Jain, PhD, as told to Cyril Manning UCSF Magazine Winter 2025 Imagine for a moment that we could create a model of the human brain so precise, so accurate, that it could mimic the brain’s intricate neural patterns in real time. Imagine a “silicon brain,” an artificial neural network so advanced that it could decode a human’s thoughts, restore speech to those who have lost it, and – perhaps one day – even generate a personalized...