Build-a-brain project bags big bucks
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January 24, 2013 |
I’m often frustrated that there’s only so much you can learn from an actual human brain, even with the best of scientific intentions. But what about an artificial brain?
Scientists from the Human Brain Project want to make a computer simulation of the brain that will help neuroscientists study brain disorders, and they’ve just been awarded funding.
I wonder… if this brain is programmed to respond to pain, can it suffer? At what point do we decide if it deserves some of the rights and protections we enjoy?
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A project to simulate the entire human brain has won funding of €500 million in the Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship competition.
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Jose L. Vasquez
if you really want to stimulate the brain to add capacity you would have to start at birth and before the brain stops growing, I think the skull would have to be left defused for it to grow the brain ever so larger one centimeter of extra brain matter might make the difference in capabilities, but I don’t think that it is the type of stimulation scientist are thinking about, perhaps they are thinking of something
bio-mechanical, a type of soft tissue attached to hardware like a cyborg but for what purpose so that the brain can think better or faster or retain memory, no mater what you do to the brain I don’t think you could make it think faster or better so it leaves you with the memory option but for this end, helping the brain to grow larger might achieve this goal on children but for you the cyborg option is the only one and then who knows how to access this memory from a chip by thinking to it or talking to your self, what would people think if they saw you waving your arms having an argument all by your self.