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  • Neurotechnology: Growing a Brain in Switzerland - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

    From the page: "The Lausanne model, dubbed "Blue Brain," is the most radical attempt so far to investigate the mystery of consciousness. The idea is seductively simple: To determine how the mind emerges from biology, replicate the biology. It's a task that requires enormous... more

    Reviewed by mrgrum Feb 17 2007, 03:57am ( 14 reviews ) • spiegel.de

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  • Rated by Vonilan on Mar 22 2009, 7:23pm

    Fascinating stuff. It's amazing how many implications this could have even beyond the scientific and medical fields. With this tool, scientists may be able to prove that consciousness really arises from the interactions of neurons in our brains, dispelling the idea that there is such a thing as a "soul," tying into important philosophical questions. Skepticism is probably warranted in this case, but these researchers are clearly sharp and ambitious and I wish them well.

  • Rated by pfaxxx on Mar 19 2009, 4:18pm

    give it 20 years of growing, and...

  • Rated by commerican on Dec 05 2007, 10:17pm

    The early steps towards mind-machine interface?

  • Rated by MarZau on Nov 27 2007, 11:58pm

    This is the stuff of science fiction, awesome. Science may one day be able to replicate the human brain.

  • Rated by weeble on Nov 25 2007, 3:39am

    From the page: "The idea is seductively simple: To determine how the mind emerges from biology, replicate the biology"

  • Rated by Barking--Spider on Nov 12 2007, 6:18am

    And the singularity draws ever closer.

  • Rated by Dominov on Nov 11 2007, 6:58pm

    How wonderful that while reading this I'm listening to "I am the very model of a Singularitarian"

  • Rated by Roopi on Sep 30 2007, 7:58pm

    A network of artificial nerves is growing in a Swiss supercomputer -- meant to simulate a natural brain, cell-for-cell. The researchers at work on "Blue Brain" promise new insights into the sources of human consciousness.

  • Rated by mrgrum on Feb 17 2007, 3:57am

    From the page: "The Lausanne model, dubbed "Blue Brain," is the most radical attempt so far to investigate the mystery of consciousness. The idea is seductively simple: To determine how the mind emerges from biology, replicate the biology. It's a task that requires enormous patience and attention to detail, a process that ultimately means mimicking nature one molecule at a time. Though the first artificial brain may seem simple, it will be a useful model. Brain researchers can use it to reproduce functions from the real organ and test their theories. As they build in new processes, the model grows ever more detailed -- a sort of wiki project of the mind. It also offers an important advantage over a natural brain, since it lets researchers monitor each and every (simulated) mental activity in the machine. But -- has there been mental activity? The newborn "Blue Brain" surprised the designers with its willfulness from the very first day. It had hardly been fed electrical impulses before strange patterns began to appear on the screen with the lightning-like flashes produced by cells that scientists recognize from actual thought processes. Groups of neurons started becoming attuned to one another until they were firing in rhythm. "It happened entirely on its own," says Markram. "Spontaneously.""

  • Rated by Ragle on Feb 16 2007, 10:41pm

    From the page: "A network of artificial nerves is growing in a Swiss supercomputer -- meant to simulate a natural brain, cell-for-cell. The researchers at work on "Blue Brain" promise new insights into the sources of human consciousness."