BLUE BRAIN

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Contents

1. INTRODUCTION

2. WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN

3. WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN

4. FUNCTION OF NATURAL BRAIN

5. BRAIN SIMULATION

6. CURRENT RESEARCH WORK

7. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQIREMENT

8. ADVANTAGES

9. DISADVANTAGE

10. CONCLUSION

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INTRODUCTION

◦Human Brain—The most valuable

creation of GOD

◦The intelligence of a person is lost

after his/her death

◦ Is there any solution for this?

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WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN?

◦ BLUE BRAIN—The world’s first virtual

brain.

◦ IBM is now in research to create a

virtual brain. It is called "Blue brain ".

◦ A machine that functions as human

Brain.

◦ An artificial brain that can think,

response, take decision, and keep

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WHY DO WE NEED VIRTUAL

BRAIN??

◦ The main aim is to upload human brain into machine.

◦ So that man can think, take decision without any effort.

◦ After the death of the body, the virtual brain will act as the man .

◦ So, even after the death of a person we will not loose the knowledge, intelligence, personalities, feelings and memories of that man that can be used for the development of the human society.

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FUNCTIONING OF HUMAN

BRAIN Sensory Input :-

Receiving input such as sound ,image, etc through sensory cell .

Interpretation.Interpretation of the received input by

the brain by defining states of neurons in the brain.

Motor Output.Receiving of electric responses

from the brain to perform any action .

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BRAIN SIMUALATION

Natural Brain vs Artificial

Brain INPUT

Through the natural neurons

INTERPRETATION

By different states of the neurons in the brain

INPUT

Through the silicon chip or artificial neurons

INTERPRETATION

By a set of bits in the set of register

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BRAIN SIMUALATION

Natural Brain vs Artificial

Brain OUTPUT

Through the natural neurons.

PROCESSING

Through arithmetic and logical calculations

OUTPUT

Through the silicon chip .

PROCESSING

Through arithmetic and logical calculation and artificial intelligence

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BRAIN SIMUALATION

Natural Brain vs Artificial

Brain

MEMORY

Through

permanent states

of neurons

MEMORY

Through

Secondary

memory

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ARTIFICIAL NUERAL NETWORK

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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 through out our circulatory system.

Traveling into the spine and brain, they will be able to monitor the activity and structure of our central nervous system.

Nanobots could also carefully scan the structure of our brain, providing a complete readout of the connection.

This information, when entered into a computer, could then continue to function as us.

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RESEARCH WORK

IBM developing the “Blue

brain”

IBM, in partnership with

scientists at Switzerland’s

Ecole Polytechnique Federale

De Lausanne’s(EPFL) Brain

and Mind Institute will begin

simulating the brain’s

biological systems.12

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Software & Hardware

Requirement 22.8 TFLOPS peak processing speed.

8,096 CPUs at 700 MHz (downgraded to handle massive parallel processing).

256MB to 512MB memory per processor.

Linux and C++ software.

100 kilowatts power consumption.

very powerful Nanobots to act as the interface between the natural brain and the computer.

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ADVANTAGES

Intelligence of a person is not lost even after his death

Things can be remembered easily without much effort

Allowing deaf to hear via nerve simulation

Making decisions without the presence of the person

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DISADVANTAGES

We become dependent

upon the computer

Others may use technical

knowledge against us.

Another fear is found today

with respect to human

cloning16

We will be able to turn

ourselves into computers

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References

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project

Blue Brain Project: modelling the human brain in the lab - D. BALASUBRAMANIAN dbala@lvpei.org

Pictures from-http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/blue-brain-steadily-moving-brain-simulation-into-reality/

Articles of Professor Henry Markram from the Brain Mind

Institute at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and International Business Machines (IBM)

Positive Technology Journal - Mind, brain, and emerging technologies - By Andrea Gaggioli, Ph.D

http://www.bbrws.org Lots of references related

to Blue brain e-journal18

ANY QUERIES

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