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Create Artificial Human Brain

posted October 7, 2009 - 3:49am
Create Artificial Human Brain

Technology will increasingly developed, including genetic engineering, humans will be more advanced in high technology.

Technology makes people do something extraodinary. When confronted with the god of technology, it got no reaction from the religious agree. After cloning technology, is now making plans human brain would get a strong reaction!

A number of scientists from the Tecnican University of Lausanne, Switzerland, which joined the Blue Brain Project has recently made a startling claim of the world. They planned and surd to create artificial human brain!

Currently, they're trying to make the creation of artificial brains by examining the properties re brain neurons that amounted to billions, with the help of computers. If succesful, the the human brain making business can be done formally next 10 years.

"Our initial research successfully simulate the neocortex, the part that grew rapiddly in the brain, to handle social situations," said Director Blue Brain Projeck, Prof. Henry Markram, when speaking in scientific TED conference at Oxford University, UK, July.

According to Markram, the team has conducted experiments on mice, by doubling the essential elements of these rodents. They have claimed to have managed to simulate three-dimensional (3D) of the 10.000 human brain cells, to mimic the brain neocortex of rats.

This preliminary step that makes them optimistic about the human brain can create the exact same function with the original human brain. Whatever the outcome could make surprise all people in the world.

Despite the religious opposition would, in fact this project also has benefits in medicine, especially in the field of neulorogy. For example, is used to understand how sensory information from the outside world in the interpretaion and stored in the human brain.

In addition, can be used also as an alternative method for researching brain diaseases without the need to experiment on animals such as mice, rabbits and monkeys.

Simulation of the brain that there is now no more sophisticated in finding an appropriate method of therapy for people with mental illness and brain," he said.

An estimated two billion around the world who suffer from various mental illnesses. With the new findings would be, expected to provide new solutions in finding methods of brain disease therapy is approriate.

According to Markram, the research team using a laptop just to make a calculation or process the data from one neuron (single nerve). Given the amount of cells studied 10,000 neurons, they also need 10,000 laptop!

To smooth the experiments, the researchers used IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer, capable of mapping the human brain functions are very complicated.

This supercomputer is able to accommodate millions of algorithms and data as well as to streamline the process.

But the most concern is if this technology applied off the mark. For example replace the healthy human brain, but dumb, with a brain synthesis much more clever.

Even the controversy about cloning technology was not completed until now. Technology which was originally only applied to objects of plants, have now turned to animals, and the fear will spread to humans.



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