Editor and writer Jonah Lehrer, recently posted an interesting article in Seed Magazine titled “Out of the Blue, Can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?” In the article there is much talk of: patch clamp technique, eavesdropping on neurological interactions, neuroscience looking to physics, mind modeling, and dizzying sums of data. Blue Brain, a concentration of 8,000 IBM microchips programmed to replicate real neurons and cellular activity inside the brain, was designed and constructed from the bottom up by neuroscientist Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain project at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. I especially dug the probable outcome of the Blue Brain project mentioned early in the article: [click to continue…]
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