VIRTUAL BRAIN: Blue Brain project

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Hello Everyone, today we will be getting a glimpse of “BLUE BRAIN”, hold on don’t worry about reading those unfamiliar tough technical words, let’s make it simple.

All of us are familiar with the work of an sketch artist right?. Many of us might have our own sketches from different artists, these sketches are stimulation of our physical appearances. Exactly that, Blue Brain is, a simulation of human brain in all the areas including, thinking, responding, taking decision, storing memory and in all other functioning. Blue Brain Project is a Swiss research project. It is the first virtual brain project.

” Sketch of a baby picture and Blue Brain”

Now Think, Why do we need sketches and pictures? Yes, to capture the moments so that those memory never fade away. In case, of blue brain we require this technology so that:

  • Things could be remembered without any efforts.
  • Imagine if we could use Einstein’s Brain and can resolve more puzzling theories in the universe, this can be possible with the help of blue brain, we can actually use a person’s intelligence even after his/her death.
  • Reveal many existing aspects of the brain circuit, knowing about what are the other possibilities of a brain functioning.
  • A dialogue in 3 Idiots movie “Engineers are very clever they have designed machines which can measure the pressure of blood and can diagnose other diseases but no machine can measure the pressure of the brain”, kudos!! here’s the first step towards measuring the pressure on brain, blue brain will also help in analysis about the different workings of brain like memory loss, memory capability.
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  • With the evolving culture the diseases related to brain are increasing more than any other disease, blue brain will help us scanning our brain, monitor the function and know the disease.

This all sounds so fascinating but a question arises“HOW TO UPLOAD OUR BRAIN TO A VIRTUAL BRAIN?”

Going back to the sketching artists example, have you ever noticed that how he actually sketch you into a picture, obviously by observations through his eyes, noticing all the small details about your appearance. His eyes works as a medium of connection between you and his sketch.

NANOBOTS:

The medium between your brain and virtual brain, basically the eyes of virtual brain.

NANOBOTS

To achieve the target of uploading your brain to virtual brain nanobots plays an important role. Due to their nano size(small size) they can travel throughout our circulatory system, these can be embedded into human brains and they are functioned to analyse the activities of neuro-system within the brain and all the networks build by dendrites and axon. Further transfer this information to the virtual brain.

WHERE WILL THIS UPLOADED DATA BE STORED?

Since our brain consists of vast memory, it requires:

  • A Super computer, a computer much more advanced than today’s computers.
  • Memory with a very large storing capacity.
  • Processor with a very high processing power.
  • A program to convert the electric impulses from the brain to input signal which is to be received by the computer and vice versa.
  • The Blue Brain has some 8,000 processor which amps one or two simulated brain neurons to each processor making the computer a replica of 10,000 neurons.

THINK!!

  • What if the stored intelligence of a person with great human brain be used in a wrong way?
  • What if these technologies are weaponized against us?
  • What if we become too much dependent on computers that we lose the natural capabilities of our brain?

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32 thoughts on “VIRTUAL BRAIN: Blue Brain project”

  2. It’s amazing as well as fascinating, If we could actually know the limits of human brain and use technology in our favour.
    Well done Aditi

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  7. Its amazing. Brain is made of neurons. Nd whats more fascinating us all it does is transmit electric impulse. Researches in this field is the challenging for sure, but truely fascinating. It was a great blog. U should definitely check cortical labs u will find some interesting topic. Keep growung, keep learning while educating others.

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  8. This is really goosebumping overall💥
    The way you explained it is very very well👏🏻
    You took us deep down by telling us more and more amazing facts about it, and at last was the greatest punch.. like what happens if it is used against us only.. keep wondering😂😂

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  13. अद्भुत अविश्वसनीय अकल्पनीय
    आपकी सोच को सलाम 🙏🙏

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  14. I really like how you structure your thoughts around such complex topics by relating them to day-to-day life. It flows really well because the sentences are concise and the language is interesting. The questioning approach makes the reader think and that makes your content more engaging. One thing I’d recommend is that you should do some more in-depth research on the topic and also list down the references. That would enable readers to delve deeper into the concepts if they wish. Kudos to you!

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  15. Wooww Great just great…. can’t understand how u relate all this with our daily lives. And Thankyou for sharing this knowledge with us, seriously I wasn’t aware of this one.
    Kudos to your effort which u put on new ideas and topics.
    That was a great stuff my friend!
    Keep going and doing great 😊👍👌

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  16. That’s an amazing blog Ms. Aditi. The way you explained the concept of Blue brain is really commendable. Hope to see you to work on this in upcoming future. Best of Luck!

    We are having a community of 5000+ students. Hope you can allow us to share the blog link among them. This blog may pass lot of valuable information to many and hope maximum gets benefit through the information.

    Looking forward to read more such blogs. Kudos!

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