Comments on: Mouse brain simulated on Super Computer

By: Andy W

Andy W — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:37:37 +0000

Great article, the advancement of modern technology is really quite astounding.

By: Tara

Tara — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:06:55 +0000

This type of article makes me think of what we will be looking back at in years to come, the first of it’s kind so to speak.

I wonder how many years it will be before they have a digital human brain.

By: SteveR

SteveR — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:15:35 +0000

Crazy stuff, it will be Judgement day before we know it! :O

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By: John Cook

John Cook — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:38:33 +0000

I deny this reality and substitute another. If it is currently impossible to model the brain of an ant, how can we believe the modeling of a mouse brain has current potential?

First we need to determine the actual circuitry of the brain–only then can we make an actual model. In short, see the first sentence.

Too often, even in so-called “Hard Science”, the researchers own beliefs are too cleanly and too easily “proven”. Look for total proof, not some insubstantive documentation turned out to validate a science team. Sometimes science cannot prove a thing… so they simply make it up.

By: keegan

keegan — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:50:45 +0000

we should stop this madness before it is too late! within a few years these ten-times-slower-than-half-a-mouse-brain machines will turn against us and take over the world. warn your friends! destroy the computer!

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 05 May 2007 12:29:23 +0000

If we didn’t do research like this then we would have never advanced to where we are today.

The problem comes when we have the power we don’t know how best to use it, the old quote of: “With great power comes great responsibility” seems quite appropriate.

By: Darkfrost

Darkfrost — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:11:36 +0000

The team, from the IBM Almaden Research Lab and the University of Nevada, ran the simulation on a BlueGene L supercomputer that had 4096 processors, each one of which used 256MB of memory.

By: OnApoint

OnApoint — Wed, 23 May 2007 09:05:47 +0000

Maybe a small matter to remind yourself, the human brain is far more complex then a mouse brain, but the basic “brain” is just as complex. I wonder how the computer will look like when we actually achieve such a function.
A factor taking in with this is the randomness of neurel networking. Every brain is unique, so every computer with such a network, system, program must be a unique “Persona”. So I wonder…. How big must this Computer be.

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Most powerful Supercomputer unleashed, Articles and Reviews from Voodish. — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:28:25 +0000

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By: Jangles

Jangles — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:43:02 +0000

The Matrix is coming…I’m so excited!