How many Joe Average processors do you need to accumulate the equivalent of 22.8 teraflops (one trillion computations per second) of calculating power? I have no idea, but this one can do it alone - and simulate a human brain. One of the benefits the science team aims at is cracking the neural node, which basically means to understand how the brains works, how it uses electrical signals, how our memory works. It might even help to answer question like how selfconscience and our perception of reality are constructed, how intelligence works? Questions philosophers thought about it and tried to answer and give definitions for thousands of years. The project is not about creating a thinking brain, some kind of computerized artificial intelligence, but still, just the thought of being able to simulate the brain was pure science fiction a few decades ago. You're mentally ill? Let's take a closer look...

It will be the first time humans will be able to observe the electrical code our brains use to represent the world, and to do so in real time, ...
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The end product, which will take at least a decade to achieve, can then be stimulated and observed to see how different parts of the brain behave.

Blue Brain project: Mission to build a simulated brain begins

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