The human brain is going to break bits and pixels

Scientists intend to recreate the human brain, using the world's most powerful computer, reports The Daily Mail. "It is supposed to bring together all the information about the mysterious device of the brain that exists at the moment, and play it back on the monitor in detail, at the level of individual cells and molecules," explains journalist Tamara Cohen. Perhaps the model will help to understand the causes of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, to understand how we think and make decisions.


The project is carried out by scientists from different countries of Europe under the leadership of Henry Markram living in Switzerland. Scientists hope to cope with work for the past 12 years, the article says.




The "brain" will be a thousand-dimensional images arranged around a semi-circular "cockpit". Scientists will be able to literally "fly" over different parts of the brain and see how they interact. The task is to reflect on one platform all the results of neurology around the world. Annually in this area is published about 60 thousand articles.




According to the journalist, the brain model can be used for testing new drugs, and will also help to raise the intellectual level of the robots and computers.




"It is one of three difficult tasks offered to mankind: to understand the Earth, the cosmos and the brain. We need to understand what makes us human," says Markram. Over the past 15 years, his laboratory has created a computer model of cortical nerve bundle is one of the elements of the mammalian brain, and the brain of the rat.




Recreating the human brain is one of the main problems is the power supply: the machine will need the energy of a nuclear power plant, says the author of the article.




Source: Daily Mail

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