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Building Brains on a Computer

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A roadmap for brain emulation models at the human scale.

Back to Articles Back to Articles Building Brains on a Computer Words by Max Schons Long Read Issue 09 Back to Articles Building Brains on a Computer A roadmap for brain emulation models at the human scale. Example H2 Example H3 I first heard people seriously discussing the prospect of “running” a brain in silico back in 2023. Their aim was to emulate, or replicate, all the biological processes of a human brain entirely on a computer. In that same year, the Wellcome Trust released a report on what it would take to map the mouse connectome: all 70 million neurons. They estimated that imaging wo

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