Do you know about the Blue Brain project? Here it is
On 1 July 2005, the Brain Mind Institute and IBM launched the Blue Brain Project1.
The Blue Brain Project is a Swiss brain research initiative that aims to create a digital reconstruction of the mouse brain.
The Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. More than 40 scientists from different fields of expertise are working on the Blue Brain Project, a unique scientific quest.
Researchers hope to find out how our brains work and create a computer that’s an exact replica of the human brain.
The human brain contains approximately 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons. These neurons communicate with one another using electrical impulses to pass on information. A single nerve cell is able to produce hundreds of these impulses every single second.
The initial goal of the project, which was the creation of a simulated rat neocortical column which is considered by some researchers to be the smallest functional unit of the neocortex.
which is thought to be responsible for higher functions such as conscious thought. Rat neocortical columns are very similar in structure but contain only 10,000 neurons and 108 synapses. Between 1995 and 2005, Markram mapped the types of neurons and their connections in such a column.
In 2019, Idan Segev, the whole cortex for the mouse brain was complete. He also mentioned that the model had become too heavy on the supercomputers they were using at the time, and that they were consequently exploring methods in which every neuron could be represented as a neural network.
Written by Sayoni Mahapatra Chatterji
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