The document discusses the Blue Brain project, which aims to create a synthetic human brain by reconstructing it piece by piece within a supercomputer. The project began in 2005 as a collaboration between EPFL and IBM. Its goal is to build a virtual brain that can function similarly to the human brain by thinking, responding, remembering information, and potentially developing feelings and emotions. The project has made progress over the years in building artificial neural networks and aims to construct a full human brain model by 2023, which could help understand the human brain better but may also introduce disadvantages if its capabilities are misused.

1. Blue Brain
Prepared By:
Priya Bhadeshiya
(130570702025)

2. Introduction
• Human brain, the most valuable creation of
God. The man is called intelligent because of
the brain. But we loss the knowledge of a
brain when the body is destroyed after the
death.
• Blue Brain is world’s first virtual brain which
can function as human brain.

3. What is Virtual Brain?
• A machine that can function as brain.
• It can take decisions.
• It can think.
• It can response.
• It can keep things in memory.
• It also has feelings and emotions.

4. Need of Virtual Brain
● To upload contents of natural brain to it.
● To keep the intelligence, knowledge and skill
of any person forever.
● To remember things without any effort.

5. Blue Brain Project
● It is an attempt to create a synthetic
brain.
● The Blue Brain Project began in 2005 with
an agreement between the EPFL and IBM.
● Goal- “Reconstructing the brain piece by
piece and build a virtual brain in a super
computer”.

8. Progress
● 2005
On June 6, the EPFL and IBM sign an agreement to
launch the Blue Brain project. The agreement
provides for the installation of a BlueGene
supercomputer on campus.
● 2007
the project reported the end of the first phase,
delivering a data-driven process for creating,
validating, and researching the neocortical column.
● 2008
The first artificial cellular neocortical column of
10,000 cells was built.

9. Cont...
● 2011
a cellular mesocircuit of 100 neocortical columns with
a million cells in total was built
● 2014
A cellular rat brain is planned with 100 meso circuits
totalling a hundred million cells.
● 2023
a cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023
equivalent to 1000 rat brains with a total of a
hundred billion cells.

10. Advantages
• Remembering things without any effort.
• Making decision without the presence of a person.
• Using intelligence of a person after the death .
• Understanding the activities of animals .
• Allowing the deaf to hear via direct nerve
• stimulation.

11. Disadvantages
• We become dependent upon the computer.
•Others may use technical knowledge against us.

13. Conclusion
• We will be able to transform ourselves into
computers at some point.
• It will bring both benefits & harms to human
society..

14. Thank You