Whole Brain Emulation: The Logical Endpoint of Neuroinformatics?Submitted by George Overmeire on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 22:04 |
Anders Sandberg heeft een lezing gegeven over Mind Uploading:
Via GoogleTechTalks — Google Tech Talk May 27, 2010.
ABSTRACT
Presented by Anders Sandberg.
The idea of creating a faithful, one-to-one computer copy of a human brain has been a popular philosophical thought experiment and science fiction plot for decades. While computational neuroscience and systems biology are currently very far away from this goal, the trends towards large-scale simulation, industrialized neuroinformatics, new forms of microscopy and powerful computing clusters point in this direction and are enabling new forms of simulations of unprecendented scope. In this talk I will discuss current estimates of how close we are to achieving emulated brains, technological requirements, research challenges and some of the possible consequences.