Nov 14, 2009

Building a brain in a supercomputer [TED talk]

A talk released last month (14:51):

Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all the brain's 100,000,000,000,000 synapses.

Watch around the 12:25 mark for an incredible simulation.