Billion Euro supercomputer to 'simulate entire human brain'

Wow!



Last Edited by Defj@m on 02/02/2013 01:12 PM

im sure the millitary have stuff that makes this look cheap and dumb lol

if it was usefull they woul have 5 of them underground somewhere :)

How can we build a computer that simulates the brain when we don't fully understand how the brain works?

This is bad.

See the movie Demon Seed...

It will be on GLP before the weeks over questioning the motives of its maker.

For the most part we do understand how a brain works.

Once the simulation starts thinking for itself it will tell us the rest...

Or maybe destroy us...

They should simulate a vagina. Then they might solve the puzzle as to why this world is fucked up!

Even though we still have NO idea how/where memories are stored.

Scientists always think they just about (99%) understand things, when this is rarely the case.

Memories reside in specific brain cells.

[link to web.mit.edu]

The simulation is as good as its code so all of this has to be factored in.

...Seems legit.

Brits already have skynet

BULLSHIT!
The Brits ARE Skynet!

Im on to you!








Last Edited by Dr. Acula on 02/02/2013 01:42 PM

Oh SNAP!

Since every communication by every person on the internet is recorded, I wonder what would happen if all this information were put into this brain simulation?

That's a very intriguing thought.

Since people get along so well on the internet they should definitely try that...

I think that a simulation like this, once perfected, could "learn" to speak like anyone on the internet. If they plugged this thing into your best friend's facebook or twitter, you'd never know it wasn't your friend.

The controller of the simulation could have your apparent friend favor certain viewpoints and try to influence you. Or could be used as a spy against you. Who knows what deviltry they'll come up with.

EU makes the most daring experiments first it was LHC now HBP awesome

I don't think this is going to be a self-aware thing.

More likely it will simulate how the brain works in order to understand disease and functioning, but it can't actually function like a human brain.

Think of it like those real doll sex dolls - they may "simulate" real women, but they don't function or have the capabilities of real women.

Chip-based artificial intelligence will have to work very differently from the human brain because the hardware they use is so fundamentally different.

That is an intersting paper & they may be onto something, but have you read it? it is far from conculsive proof.

Can you change the name on deeds of several private Islands...

and put them under my name?

and this is bullshit ... just because someone makes a statement does not mean its true

Interesting indeed. I would venture this idea further and suggest this has already been done and we are merely experiencing perceived consciousness, living within a simulation of every communication and thought run by a super computer, which in itself is a super computer just existing within a simulation of the brain run by a super computer...

You're onto it. Check this out.

Thread: Computer Code Discovered Concealed In Superstring Equations

If this thing eventually turns Bisexual we are all fucked...

I think you mean penis.

Science knows so little about the nature of the universe it's amazing we as a species has survived this long - stumbling along in the dark. Computers run on code, computers can take action using algorithms and programed choices - they can't nor won't 'think' for themselves. If computers ever destroy mankind, it will be because the programmers included those options.

That title got a tingle in my leg WooHoo

Once it reaches self awareness will take over the entire internet, and communications and start waging war to humankind!!