This document discusses the concept of a "Blue Brain" or virtual brain. It describes how scientists at IBM and EPFL are working to simulate the human brain through supercomputers. Their goal is to understand how human thinking and memory work. If successful, a virtual brain could allow uploading of human intelligence and knowledge after death or help treat diseases like Parkinson's, though it may also raise ethical issues about human cloning and dependence on computers.

2. Atul Sharma
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3. CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN
 WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN
 FUNCTION OF NATURAL BRAIN
 BRAIN SIMULATION
 CURRENT RESEARCH WORK
 ADVANTAGES
 DISADVANTAGE
 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
 REQUIREMENT
 CONCLUSION

4. 10 Interesting facts about
‘OUR BRAIN’
 You can make your brain think time is going slowly by
doing new things
 Exercise can reorganize the brain and boost your willpower
 Your brain does creative work better when you’re tired
 Stress can change the size of your brain (and make it
smaller)
 It is literally impossible for our brains to multi-task
 . Naps improve your brain’s day to day performance
 Your vision trumps all other senses
 Introversion and extroversion come from different wiring
in the brain
 We tend to like people who make mistakes more
 Meditation can rewire your brain for the better

5. INTRODUCTION

6.  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”- The name of the world’s first virtual
brain. That means a machine that
can function as human brain.

7. What is BLUE BRAIN

8.  Is it really possible to create a human brain?
 “YES", The IBM is now developing a virtual brain
known as the BLUE BRAIN.
 It would be the worlds first virtual brain.
Within 30 years, we will be able to scan ourselves into
the computers.

9. WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN?

10. A machine that can function as brain
It can take decision.
It can think.
It can response.
It can keep things in memory.

11. WHY WE NEED VIRTUAL
BRAIN

12.  To upload contents of the natural brain into it .
 To keep the intelligence , knowledge and skill of
any person for ever .
 To remember things without any effort .

13. FUNCTIONING OF
BRAIN

14.  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 .

15. REFLEX ARC

16. BRAIN SIMULATION

17. NATURAL BRAIN VS SIMULATED BRAIN
 INPUT
Through the silicon chip or
artificial neurons
 INTERPRETATION
By a set of bits in the set of
register

18.  OUTPUT
Through the natural
neurons.
 PROCESSING
Through arithmetic and
logical calculations
 MEMORY
Through permanent
states of neurons
 OUTPUT
Through the silicon chip.
 PROCESSING
Through arithmetic and
logical calculation and
artificial intelligence
 MEMORY
Through Secondary
memory

19.  Now there is no question how the virtual brain
will work.
 But the question is how the human brain will be
up loaded into it.
 This is also possible due to the fast growing
technology.

20. UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN

22.  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.
 They will be able to provide an interface with computer
while we still reside in our biological form .

23.  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.
 Thus the data stored in the entire brain will be uploaded into
the computer.

25. EXAMPLE OF BLUE BRAIN

26.  A very good example of utilization of blue brain is the
case "short term memory".
 In some movies we might have noticed that a person
might be having short term memories.

27.  A another situation is that when a person gets older, then he
starts forgetting or takes a bit more time to recognize to a
person.
 For the above reason we need a blue brain. It is a simple chip
that can be installed into the human brain for which the
short term memory and volatile memory at the old age can
be avoided.

28. BLUE BRAIN PROJECT
OBJECTIVES

29.  The 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.

30. RESEARCH WORK

31.  IBM developing the “Blue brain” .
 IBM, in partnership with scientists at Switzerland’s Ecole
Polytechnique Federal De Lausanne’s(EPFL) Brain and
Mind Institute will begin simulating the brain’s
biological systems.
NEWS: The EPFL Blue Gene was the 8th fastest supercomputer in the world

32. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
REQUIRMENT

33.  A Super computer.
 Memory with a very large storing capacity.
 Processor with a very high processing power.
 A very wide network.
 A program to convert the electric impulses
from the brain to input signal, which is to be received by the
computer and vice versa.
 very powerful Nanobots to act as the interface between the
natural brain and the computer.

34.  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.
ADVANTAGES

35. DISADVANTAGES
 We become dependent upon the computer .
 Others may use technical knowledge against us.
 Another fear is found with respect to human cloning.
 A very costly procedure of regaining the memory back.

36. CONCLUSION
 We will be able to transfer ourselves into computers at some point.
 It will bring both benefits and harm to human society .
 Very soon this technology will be highly accepted whole over the
world.

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