BLUE BRAIN
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Outline… Introduction Why Blue Brain? Objectives of Blue Brain Project Human brain configuration Simulating Virtual brain Uploading Human Brain Requirement & Power Pros & cons Applications &Future Perspective Closing Thoughts
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INTRODUCTION Could a simulated brain start to think, feel and
experience the world as if it were an organic, human brain?
Technology is growing faster than everything. If possible, IBM’s “BLUE BRAIN”, an artificial brain that can think, respond, take decision, and keep anything in memory, would be the first virtual brain of the world.
The goal is to reverse engineer the brain into a computer.
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WHY BLUE BRAIN? Today we are developed because of our intelligence.
Intelligence is the inborn quality that cannot be created.
After the death of a person, virtual brain will act as a person so we will not lose the knowledge, intelligence, personalities, feelings and memories of that man that can be used for the development of the human society.
Certain super brains like that of Steve Jobs, or Stephen Hawkings could be interfaced with computer to develop super computers.
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OBJECTIVES IBM’s blue brain project will search for insights
into how human beings think and remember. Scientists think that blue brain could also help to
cure the Parkinson's disease. The brain circuitry is in a complex state of flux,
the brain rewiring itself every moment of its existence. If the scientists can crack open the secret of how and why the brain does it, the knowledge could lead to new breed of supercomputers.
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HOW OUR BRAIN WORKS?
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Nervous System~ Sensory Input~ Integration~ Motor Output
~ Electric Impulses
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BRAIN SIMULATIONNatural Brain
Input• By neurons• By sensory cells
Interpretation Memory
Virtual Brain Input
• ANN with silicon chip.• Electric impulses
Interpretation Memory
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BRAIN SIMULATION
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Simulating human brain by reverse engineering & combining biological studies to digital technology using concept of Artificial Neural Network (ANN)
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UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN The uploading is possible by
the use of small robots known as the NANOBOTS.
These robots are small enough to travel throughout our circulatory system.
Will monitor activity of brain by traveling into the spine and brain
They will provide an interface with computer .
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UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN
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The IBM’s Blue Brain at Lausanne Switzerland
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REQUIREMENTS The hardware & software required to build a Blue Brain… 8,096 CPUs at 700 MHz each of which can map
one or two simulated brain neurons 256MB to 512MB memory per processor. 100 kilowatts power consumption. Processor with a very high processing power. 22.8 TFLOPS peak processing speed. Linux and C++ software.
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REQUIREMENTS
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BLUE BRAIN POWER Blue Brain will reveal many
existing aspects of the brain circuits ,memory capacity , and how memories are lost.
The modelling is also able to work out best way to compensate and repair error circuits .The blue brain model can be used to detect and test treatment strategies for neurological diseases.
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PROS… We can remember things without any
effort. Decision can be made without the
presence of a person. Even after the death of a man his
intelligence can be used. Improvements in processing speed and
memory could make entire human brain simulated.
The activity of different animals can be understood.
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CONS… We become dependent upon the computer
systems. Others may use technical knowledge against us. Computer viruses will pose an increasingly
critical threat. Possibilities of human cloning. If in future surrogates to humans are developed
then, there will be no human interaction and the world will run on computers only.
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APPLICATIONS Gathering and Testing 100 Years of Data Cracking the Neural Code A Foundation for Molecular Modeling of Brain
Function Understanding Neocortical Information Processing A Novel Tool for Drug Discovery for Brain
Disorders A Global Facility A Foundation for Whole Brain Simulations
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FUTURE PERSPECTIVE
Prosthetic devices to restore vision, hearing or limb control might be the next step.
Further in the future, the real dreams would be the realization of the “brain-in-computer and chip-in-brain” arrangement.
Creating Surrogates This is just ’blink of an eye’…there’s lot more to
come…
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CLOSING THOUGHTS
Very soon this technology will be highly accepted whole over the world but wisdom lies in right use.
“Technology does not create Brain but Brain creates Technology”
We will be able to transfer ourselves into computers at some point & this is just the beginning……..!
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