The Blue Brain project aims to create a virtual brain through detailed computer simulations. It seeks to reverse engineer the brain by simulating a cortical column of rat neurons using supercomputers. The goal is to understand how human intelligence and memory works at the neuronal level. If successful, it could lead to cures for neurological diseases and development of artificial general intelligence capable of human-level thought. However, issues around privacy, security and human dependence on technology remain challenges.

1. BY-SHIVANGI SINHA

2. OUTLINE…
• INTRODUCTION
• WHY BLUE BRAIN?
• OBJECTIVES OF BLUE BRAIN PROJECT
• HUMAN BRAIN CONFIGURATION
• SIMULATING VIRTUAL BRAIN
• UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN
• REQUIREMENT & POWER
• PROS & CONS
• APPLICATIONS &FUTURE PERSPECTIVE
• CLOSING THOUGH

3. 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 .
 Is it really possible to create a human brain?

4. INTRODUCTION
• “YES", the IBM & EPFL is now developing a virtual brain known as the BLUE BRAIN.
• Technology is growing faster than everything. If possible,
IBM’S “blue brain”, an artificial brain that can think, respond,
take decision, and keep anything in memory, would be
the first virtual brain of the world.
• the goal is to reverse engineer the brain into a computer.

5. WHY BLUE BRAIN?
• Today we are developed because of our intelligence. intelligence is the
inborn quality that cannot be created.
• After the death of a person, virtual brain will act as a person so 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.
• Certain super brains like that of Steve jobs, or Stephen Hawking’s could
be interfaced with computer to develop super computers.

6. WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN
• 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.

7. WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN
• a machine that can function as brain .
• it can take decision.
• it can think.
• it can respond.
• it can keep things in memory.

8. WHY WE NEED VIRTUAL BRAIN
• 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 .

9. OBJECTIVES
• IBM’S blue brain 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.

10. FUNCTIONING OF BRAIN
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 .

11. BRAIN SIMULATION
NATURAL BRAIN
 INPUT
 THROUGH NATURAL NEURONS.
 BY SENSORY CELLS.
 INTERPRETATION
 BY DIFFERENT STATES OF NEURONS IN THE
BRAIN.
 OUTPUT
 THROUGH NATURAL NEURONS.
 PROCESSING
 ARITHMETIC AND LOGICAL CALCULATIONS.
 MEMORY
 THROUGH PERMANENT STATES OF NEURONS.
SIMULATED BRAIN
 INPUT
 ARTIFICIAL NEURONS WITH SILICON CHIPS .
 ELECTRIC IMPULSES.
 INTERPRETATION
 BY A SET OF BITS IN THE SET OF REGISTER.
 OUTPUT
 THROUGH SILICON CHIPS.
 PROCESSING
 ARITHMETIC AND LOGICAL CALCULATIONS AND
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
 MEMORY
 THROUGH SECONDARY MEMORY

12. 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 .
• 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.

13. NANOBOTS

14. UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN
THE IBM’S BLUE BRAIN AT LAUSANNE SWITZERLAND

15. REQUIREMENTS
THE HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIRED TO BUILD A
BLUE BRAIN…
• 8,096 CPUS AT 700 MHZ EACH OF WHICH CAN MAP ONE OR TWO
SIMULATED BRAIN NEURONS
• 256MB TO 512MB MEMORY PER PROCESSOR.
• 100 KILOWATTS POWER CONSUMPTION.
• PROCESSOR WITH A VERY HIGH PROCESSING POWER.
• 22.8 TFLOPS PEAK PROCESSING SPEED.
• LINUX AND C++ SOFTWARE.

16. REQUIREMENTS

17. BLUE BRAIN POWER
• blue brain will reveal many existing aspects of the
brain circuits ,memory capacity , and how
memories are lost.
• the modelling is also able to work out best way to
compensate and repair error circuits .
• the blue brain model can be used to detect and test
treatment strategies for neurological diseases.

18. HOW THE BLUE BRAIN PROJECT WILL WORK
• The neocortex is the largest and most complex part of the human brain, and
constitutes about 85 per cent of the brain's total mass.
• The neocortex is thought to be responsible for the cognitive functions of language,
learning, memory and complex thought.
• The simulated neurons will be interconnected with rules the team has worked out
about how the brain functions.
• This result would develop a simulated model known as “BLUEBRAIN”.

19. BLUE BRAIN POWER
• the human brain has 100 billions, nerve cells that enable us to adapt quickly to an
immense array of stimuli.
• blue brain is a technology that uses “blue gene” a supercomputer capable of
processing 228 t-flops.
• the main aim of blue brain is to build an software replica or template which could
reveal many exisiting aspects of the brain circuits, memory capacity, and how
memories are lost.
• the modeling is also able to work out best way to compensate and repair error
circuits .
• the blue brain model can be used to detect and test treatment stategies for
neurological diseases.

20. BLUE BRAIN SIMULATION USING
MICROPROCESSOR
The Blue Brain simulation uses one
microprocessor for each of the 10,000
neurons in the cortical column of a rat's
cerebral cortex.
It helps to build a brain microcircuit, in
order to scale it in human brain.

21. BENEFITS OF BLUE BRAIN
• it acts as a supercomputer.
• improvements in processing , speed and memory could make entire human brain
simulated.
• things could be remembered without any effort.
• use the intelligence of the person after death.
• it can make decisions entirely of its own.
• allowing the deaf to hear via direct nerve simulation.

22. ADVENTAGES OF BLUE BRAIN
 blue brain is an approach to store and utilize human intelligence and information present in the mind
even after human demise.
 it is an important move towards self -decision making by the computer or machine that holds a blue
brain.
 business analysis, attending conferences, reporting, etc. are very significant functions that an
intelligent machine can do consistently.
 it can be used as an interface between human and animal minds. The BLUE BRAIN PROJECT has
become successful in rat and some other animals which is a sign of success.
 it a good remedy towards human disability like a deaf can get the information via direct nerve
stimulation.

23. DISADVANTAGES OF BLUE BRAIN
• We become dependent upon the computer systems.
• Others may use technical knowledge against us.
• Computer viruses will pose an increasingly critical threat.
• Possibilities of human cloning.
• If in future surrogates to humans are developed then, there will be no human
interaction and the world will run on computers only.

24. APPLICATIONS
• gathering and testing 100 years of data
• cracking the neural code
• a foundation for molecular modeling of brain function
• understanding neocortical information processing
• a novel tool for drug discovery for brain disorders
• a global facility
• a foundation for whole brain simulations

25. CLOSING THOUGHTS
• VERY SOON THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL BE HIGHLY ACCEPTED WHOLE OVER THE
WORLD BUT WISDOM LIES IN RIGHT USE.
• “TECHNOLOGY DOES NOT CREATE BRAIN BUT BRAIN
CREATES TECHNOLOGY”
• WE WILL BE ABLE TO TRANSFER OURSELVES INTO
COMPUTERS AT SOME POINT & THIS IS JUST
THE BEGINNING……..!