Everyone has had one of those days were their brain just didn’t seem to work correctly. You couldn’t remember anything, important or otherwise, and you stumbled through easy tasks like your brain was in a fog. Maybe you hit fell on your head one to many times as a kid or you partied to hard when you were 13. For whatever reason, you decide you want a brand new brain. Well, in 10 years you may be able to do just that. It will probably cost way too much money at first, kind of like this.
“I absolutely believe it is technically and biologically possible. The only uncertainty is financial. It is an extremely expensive project and not all is yet secured,” said Professor Henry Markram of the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland.
Well who would have thought that trying to reverse engineering a brain would be expensive? Probably everybody, but if a project is so expensive that the Brain Mind Institute might have problems financing it, then their final product will probably be worth much more.
The apparent complexity of the human mind is not a barrier to building a “replica brain” claims Professor Markram.
“The brain is of course extremely complex because it has trillions of synapses, billions of neurons, millions of proteins, and thousands of genes. But they are still finite in number. Today’s technology is already highly sophisticated and it allows us to reverse engineer the brain rapidly.”
In regards to science, the study of the human brain had always seemed like the final frontier for me. It’s complexity is staggering, so I never imagined completely reverse engineering a brain would be possible.
“An example of the capability already in place is that today’s robots can do screenings and mappings tens of thousands of times faster than human scientists and technicians.”
So, with what is currently known about the human brain, robots are already so much faster than humans that comparing them is basically a joke. In 10 years, a robot will be able to have the complexity of the human brain to help it conquer the only barrier robots had left; human decision making skills. They will be able to have every characteristic of a human, only with speeds that can not be matched.
“In fact the brain uses some simple rules to solve highly complex problems and extracting each of these rules one by one is very exciting. For example we have been surprised at finding simple design principles that allow billions of neurons to connect to each other. I think we will understand how the brain is designed and works before we have finished building it.”
Brains should not be “built”.
::from Science Daily & AlsphaGalileo Foundation::
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