The document discusses the Blue Brain Project, which aims to reverse engineer the human brain and create a virtual version through advanced computer simulations and nanobot technology. It highlights the potential benefits of a virtual brain, including preserving human intelligence and improving memory, as well as the current progress in simulating neural structures. The project is expected to provide insights into brain functions and could lead to advancements in treating neurological diseases by 2023.

2. CONTENTS
 WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN
 WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN
 WHY WE NEED VIRTUAL BRAIN
 FUNCTIONS OF NATURAL BRAIN
 UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN
 BLUEBRAIN PROJECT OBJECTIVES
 CURRENT RESEARCH WORK
 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
REQUIREMENT
 ADVANTAGES
 REFERENCES
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3. WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN?
 The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to reverse engineer the human
brain and recreate it at the cellular level inside a computer
simulation. The project was founded in May 2005 by Henry
Markram at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland
 It would be the worlds first virtual brain.
 Within 30 years, we will be able to scan ourselves into the computers.
 The IBM is now developing a virtual brain known as the BLUE
BRAIN.
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4. WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN
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A machine that can function as brain
It can take decision.
It can think.
It can response.
It can keep things in memory.

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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 .

6. 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:-
Electric responses from the brain to perform any
action .
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FUNCTIONS OF NATURAL BRAIN

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BRAIN SIMULATION

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NATURAL BRAIN VS SIMULATED BRAIN
Natural Brain
Input
By neurons
By sensory cells
Interpretation
By different states of the
neurons in the brain.
Virtual Brain
Input
Through the silicon chip or
artificial neurons
Electric impulses
Interpretation
By a set of bits in the set of
register

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 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

10. UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN
 The uploading is possible by the use of
small robots known as the
NANOBOTS.
 These robots are small enough to travel
throughout our circulatory system.
 Will monitor activity of brain by
traveling into the spine and brain
 They will provide an interface with
computer .
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 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.

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An 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

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 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.
BLUE BRAIN PROJECT OBJECTIVES

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CURRENT RESEARCH
In August 2012 the largest simulations are of mesocircuits
containing around 100 cortical columns. Such simulations involve
approximately 1 million neurons and 1 billion synapses. This is
about the same scale as that of a honey bee brain.
Rat brain neocortical simulation (~21 million neurons) using a
22.8 tera flops supercompputer is achieved in 2014
Finally a cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023
equivalent to 1000 rat brains with a total of a hundred billion cells.

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HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
REQUIRMENT

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 A Super computer( IBM’s Blue Gene)
 Memory with a very large storing capacity.

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 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.

18. ADVANTAGES
 We can remember things without any effort.
 Decision can be made without the presence of a
person.
 Even after the death of a man his intelligence can
be used.
 Improvements in processing speed and memory
could make entire human brain simulated.
 The activity of different animals can
be understood.
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19. References
 http://www.artificialbrains.com/blue-brain-project
 https://bluebrain.epfl.ch/page-56882-en.html
 https://bbp.epfl.ch/nmc-portal.html
 Wikipedia
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