Supercomputing The Brain's Secrets
Summary
It is essential for mankind to understand the human brain, if we do want to get along in society. It is a key step in evolution. The second reason is that scientists cannot keep doing animal experiments forever. In order to understand the human brain, humans must be experimented on. The third reason is that there are 2 billion people on the planet today that are affected by mental disorder, and the drugs that are used to treat them are empirical – in other words the drugs don’t work the same with all people, and the treatments are therefore hit and miss.
The brain model as it exists today can be used to explore some fundamental questions about how the brain works. One theory of how the brain works is that the brain creates – builds – a version of the universe, and projects this version of the universe, like a bubble, all around us. This theory can now be addressed with brain simulation.
Keywords: Henry Markram, human brain, computer modeling of human brain, brain model, mental disorders, Blue Brain Project
