The Blue Brain, a Swiss national brain initiative, aims to create a digital reconstruction of the brain by reverse-engineering mammalian brain circuitry. The mission of the project, founded in May 2005 by the Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, is to use biologically-detailed digital reconstructions and simulations of the mammalian brain (brain simulation) to identify the fundamental principles of brain structure and function in health and disease.
It is said that within 30 years we will be able to scan ourselves into computers.
The Blue Brain, a Swiss national brain initiative, aims to create a digital reconstruction of the brain by reverse-engineering mammalian brain circuitry. The mission of the project, founded in May 2005 by the Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, is to use biologically-detailed digital reconstructions and simulations of the mammalian brain (brain simulation) to identify the fundamental principles of brain structure and function in health and disease.
It is said that within 30 years we will be able to scan ourselves into computers.
BrainGate is a brain implant system built and previously owned by Cyberkinetics, currently under development and in clinical trials, designed to help those who have lost control of their limbs, or other bodily functions, such as patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or spinal cord injury.
Today scientists are in research to create an artificial brain that can think, respond,
take decision, and keep anything in memory. 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
lose the knowledge, intelligence, personalities, feelings and memories of that man, that can
be used for the development of the human society. Technology is growing faster than
everything. IBM is now in research to create a virtual brain, called “Blue brain”.
With the advancement in technology, human, the ultimate source of information and discovery should
also be preserved. In other words, human is does not live for thousands of years but the information in his mind
could be saved and used for several thousands of years. The technology helpful in this activity is Blue Brain.
Neuralink white-paper. Elon Musk & Neuralink
Abstract
Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) hold promise for the restoration of sensory and motor function and
the treatment of neurological disorders, but clinical BMIs have not yet been widely adopted, in part
because modest channel counts have limited their potential. In this white paper, we describe Neuralink’s first steps toward a scalable high-bandwidth BMI system. We have built arrays of small and
flexible electrode “threads”, with as many as 3,072 electrodes per array distributed across 96 threads.
We have also built a neurosurgical robot capable of inserting six threads (192 electrodes) per minute.
Each thread can be individually inserted into the brain with micron precision for avoidance of surface vasculature and targeting specific brain regions. The electrode array is packaged into a small
implantable device that contains custom chips for low-power on-board amplification and digitization: the package for 3,072 channels occupies less than (23 × 18.5 × 2) mm3
. A single USB-C cable
provides full-bandwidth data streaming from the device, recording from all channels simultaneously.
This system has achieved a spiking yield of up to 85.5 % in chronically implanted electrodes. Neuralink’s approach to BMI has unprecedented packaging density and scalability in a clinically relevant
package.
BrainGate is a brain implant system built and previously owned by Cyberkinetics, currently under development and in clinical trials, designed to help those who have lost control of their limbs, or other bodily functions, such as patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or spinal cord injury.
Today scientists are in research to create an artificial brain that can think, respond,
take decision, and keep anything in memory. 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
lose the knowledge, intelligence, personalities, feelings and memories of that man, that can
be used for the development of the human society. Technology is growing faster than
everything. IBM is now in research to create a virtual brain, called “Blue brain”.
With the advancement in technology, human, the ultimate source of information and discovery should
also be preserved. In other words, human is does not live for thousands of years but the information in his mind
could be saved and used for several thousands of years. The technology helpful in this activity is Blue Brain.
Neuralink white-paper. Elon Musk & Neuralink
Abstract
Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) hold promise for the restoration of sensory and motor function and
the treatment of neurological disorders, but clinical BMIs have not yet been widely adopted, in part
because modest channel counts have limited their potential. In this white paper, we describe Neuralink’s first steps toward a scalable high-bandwidth BMI system. We have built arrays of small and
flexible electrode “threads”, with as many as 3,072 electrodes per array distributed across 96 threads.
We have also built a neurosurgical robot capable of inserting six threads (192 electrodes) per minute.
Each thread can be individually inserted into the brain with micron precision for avoidance of surface vasculature and targeting specific brain regions. The electrode array is packaged into a small
implantable device that contains custom chips for low-power on-board amplification and digitization: the package for 3,072 channels occupies less than (23 × 18.5 × 2) mm3
. A single USB-C cable
provides full-bandwidth data streaming from the device, recording from all channels simultaneously.
This system has achieved a spiking yield of up to 85.5 % in chronically implanted electrodes. Neuralink’s approach to BMI has unprecedented packaging density and scalability in a clinically relevant
package.
Blue brain enables humans to give new dimensions to science and technology and make enormous development in making the best possible enlightenment to the present scenario.the details can be seen by going though the power point presentation
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With the introduction of Blue Brain technology, which is a reverse engineering, we can overcome all the brain disorders and diseases. Blue Brain is the name of the world’s first virtual brain which makes a machine, function as a human brain. Even after the death of the person the complete functional attribute of a human brain can be stored in that and can be used for further development.
Blue brain –The name of the world’s first virtual brain. That means a machine that can function as human brain. Today scientists are in research to create an artificial brain that can think, response, take decision, and keep anything in memory. 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. No one has ever understood the complexity of human brain. It is complex than any circuitry in the world. So, question may arise “Is it really possible to create a human brain?” The answer is “Yes”. Because what ever man has created today always he has followed the nature. When man does not have a device called computer, it was a big question for all .But today it is possible due to the technology. Technology is growing faster than everything. IBM is now in research to create a virtual brain. It is called Blue brain. If possible, this would be the first virtual brain of the world.
The Blue Brain is Swiss national brain initiative which aims to create a digital reconstruction of the brain by reverse-engineering mammalian brain circuitry.
This presentation is about the Blue Brain project of IBM. Blue brain 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. Virtual brain is an artificial brain, which does not actually the natural brain, but can act as the brain. Intelligence ,Knowledge and skill of a person can be made eternal. The complete information about the blue brain project is present in the presentation.
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This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
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• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
2. Contents
1) Introduction
7) Brain simulations
2) Virtual brain
8) Nanotechnology used
3) Blue brain
9) Objectives of Blue Brain Project
4)Blue Brain Project
10) Hardware and Software requirements
5) Human brain
11) Advantages and disadvantages of blue brain
technology
6) Functioning of brain
3. Introduction
Human Brain- The most important part of the body. Its like
CPU of a computer without which the whole system cannot
work.
Without which we cannot think, percept, feel, act or do anything.
What happens if our brain malfunctions...??
Can we store data of a human brain into memory devices....??
Can we have the benefits of a persons intelligence even after he dies?
Can a person make decisions and attend meetings without being
physically or mentally present there...??
The answer to the above question is
”BLUE BRAIN”
4. A machine that can function as brain
It can take decision.
It can think.
It can response.
It can keep things in memory.
5. What is a blue brain??
Blue brain is the name given to the virtual human brain.
It would be the worlds first virtual human brain.
Within next 30 years we will be able to scan or brains into
our computers including:
>Intelligence
>Memory
>Imaginations
>Thoughts
>Everything
BBP Next->
6. The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to reverse engineer the human brain and
recreate it at the cellular level inside a computer simulation.
This includes:
>> Studying slices of living brain tissue using highly accurate apparatus.
>> Collecting data about different neurons
>> Data collected is used to build biological realistic model
>> This data is then simulated into artificial neuronal network by a supercomputer.
7. The Blue Brain Project(cont.)
The simulations are carried out on a Blue Gene supercomputer built by IBM
Blue Gene Super Computer, IBM
8. Founded in May 2005 in Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Laussane
or Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology located in Lausanne,
Switzerland.
HENRY MARKRAM
Neuroscientist ,EPFL
Director of BLUE BRAIN PROJECT
15.
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 .
17. Natural brain
Vs
Virtual Brain
OUTPUT
Through the natural
neurons.
OUTPUT
Through the silicon chip.
PROCESSING
Through arithmetic and
logical calculations
PROCESSING
Through arithmetic and
logical calculation and
artificial intelligence
MEMORY
Through Secondary
memory
MEMORY
Through permanent
states of neurons
18. ???
How the Blue brain will work…???
How the human brain will be uploaded
into it …???
Possible due to the fast growing
technology.
19. NANOTECHNOLOGY
Nanobots could 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.
22. Objectives of blue brain project
1) The project will search for insights into how human beings
think and remember.
2) Scientists think that blue brain could also help to cure many
brain diseases including the well known Parkinson disease.
3) 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.
23. A very good example of utilization of blue brain is the case
"short term memory
We can implant a micro chip into brain to act as secondary
memory.
24. One of the most important aspect of blue brain project is that we
can retain memory and intelligence even after a person dies.
26. Hardware for Data Acquisition
A patch-clamp microelectrode is a
micropipette with a relatively large
tip diameter. The microelectrode is
placed next to a cell, and gentle
suction is applied through the
microelectrode to draw a piece of the
cell membrane (the 'patch') into the
microelectrode tip; the glass tip
forms a high resistance 'seal' with the
cell membrane.
The part of cell is then studied under
microscope.
Patch Clamp Electrode
27. A Super computer
2) Memory with a very large storing capacity.
3) Processor with a very high processing power.
4) A program to convert the electric impulses from the brain to input signal, which
is to be received by the computer and vice versa.
Technical specification of Blue Gene computer:
>> 4,096 quad-core nodes (16,384 cores in total) (850 MHz each)
>> 16 terabytes of memory
>> Operating system: Linux SuSE SLES 10
>> Hourly process log
>> Full-HD passive stereo display connected to two GPUs on head node
28. Each core is associated with a dedicated 64bit double FPU.
Blue gene super computer can work with an efficiency of 8 floating point operation
per cycle.
The peak performance of Blue Gene super computer is 5.6 billion FLOPS.
Graphical processing capacity:
>> It’s equipped with 32 processor SGI system having 300 GB of memory.
Nanobots
Very powerful Nanobots to act as the
interface between the natural brain and the
computer.
29. Software Requirements
1. “NEURON” SOFTWARE
The primary software used by
the BBP for neural simulations is
a package called NEURON.It is
written in C, C++, and
FORTRAN.
30. 2. “RTNeuron” Software for visualisation
RTNeuron is the primary
application used for
visualisation of neural
simulations.It is written
in C++ and
OpenGL.RTNeuron is
software written
specifically for neural
simulations. RTNeuron
takes the output
simulations in NEURON
and renders them in 3D.
32. ADVANTAGES
Remembering things without any effort.
Making decision without the presence of a person.
Using intelligence of a person after the death .
Curing various brain disease as we could study
them properly.
33. We may become dependent upon the computer for making
decisions.
Others may use technical knowledge against us.
Another
fear is found with respect to human cloning.