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A Countdown to a Digital Simulation of Every Last Neuron in the Human Brain - Scientific American

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Building a vast digital simulation of the brain could transform neuroscience and medicine and reveal new ways of making more powerful computers

June 1, 2012 14 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm A Countdown to a Digital Simulation of Every Last Neuron in the Human Brain Building a vast digital simulation of the brain could transform neuroscience and medicine and reveal new ways of making more powerful computers By Henry Markram Reductionist biology-examining individual brain parts, neural circuits and molecules-has brought us a long way, but it alone cannot explain the workings of the human brain, an information processor within our skull that is perhaps unparalleled anywhere in the universe. We must construct as well as reduce and b

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