Blue brain technology

BY – A.SAITEJA & K.VAMSIMGIT

CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION2 WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN?3 NEED OF VIRTUAL BRAIN4 FUNCTIONING OF HUMAN BRAIN5 BRAIN SIMULATION6 COMPUTER HARDWARE/ SUPERCOMPUTERS7 UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN8 ADVANTAGES9 DISADVANTAGE10 CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

HUMAN BRAIN: The man is INTELLIGENT because of brain.

We lost the knowledge of a brain when the body is destroyed after the death.

BLUE BRAIN: The name of world’s first virtual brain.That means a machine that can work as human brain.

Is it possible to create a new brain ? Yes. We can….

What is blue brain?

• The IBM is now developing a virtual brain known as the BLUE BRAIN.

• It would be the worlds first virtual brain.• Within 30 years, we will be able to scan ourselves into the

computers • So, even after the death of a person we will not loose the

knowledge, intelligence, personalities, feelings and memories of that man that can be used for the development of the human society.

Need of virtual brain

A machine that can function as brain

It can take decision. It can think. It can response. It can keep things in memory. It also has feelings and

emotions.

To keep the intelligence , knowledge and skill of any person for ever .

To upload contents of the natural brain into it

To remember things without any effort .

FUNCTIONING OF HUMAN BRAIN

How the natural brain works?1.Sensory input2.Integration3.Motor output

Brain simulation

NATURAL BRAIN VS VIRTUAL BRAIN

INPUTThrough the natural

neurons

INTERPRETATIONBy different states of

the neurons in the brain.

INPUTThrough the silicon

chip or artificial sensory cells

INTERPRETATIONBy a set of bits in the

set of register

OUTPUTThrough the natural

cells.

PROCESSINGThrough arithmetic

and logical calculations

MEMORYThrough permanent

states of neurons

OUTPUTThrough the silicon

chip.

PROCESSINGThrough arithmetic

and logical calculation and artificial intelligence

MEMORYThrough Secondary

memory

Computer hardware and

super computers

Memory with a very large storing capacity(256MB to 512MB memory per processor).

Processor with a very high processing power.a program to convert the electric impulses

from the brain to input signal, which is to be received by the computer and vice versa.

Linux and C++ software.100 kilowatts power consumption.very powerful Nanobots to act as the

interface between the natural brain and the computer.

Requirements

IBM developing the “Blue brain” IBM, in partnership with scientists at

Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne’s(EPFL) Brain and Mind Institute will begin simulating the brain’s biological systems.

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NEWS: The EPFL Blue Gene was the 8th fastest supercomputer in the world

Blue brain Storage rack

Blue brain Storage hierarchy

JuQUEEN supercomputer in Germany

DEEP cluster-booster architecture

Uploading human brain

• Now there is no question how the virtual brain will work.

• But the question is how the human brain will be up loaded into it

Connecting to computer

Nanobots

The uploading is possible by the use of small robots known as the NANOBOTS.

These robots are small enough to travel through out our circulatory system.

Traveling into the spine and brain, they will be able to monitor the activity and structure of our central nervous system.

They will be able to provide an interface with computer while we still reside in our biological form.

Nanobots could also carefully scan the structure of our brain, providing a complete readout of the connection.

This information, when entered into a computer, could then continue to function as us.

Thus the data stored in the entire brain will be uploaded into the computer.

A another situation is that when a person gets older, then he starts forgetting or takes a bit more time to recognize to a person.

For the above reason we need a blue brain.

A very good example of utilization of blue brain is the case “short term memory”.

In some movies we might have noticed that a person might be having short term memories.

ADVANTAGES

Remembering things without any effort. Making decision without the presence of a person.

Using intelligence of a person after the death.

Understanding the activities of animals . Advantageous to cure diff. brain disease. Allowing the deaf to hear via direct nerve stimulation.

DISADVANTAGES

We become dependent upon the computer .

Others may use technical knowledge against us.

Computer viruses will pose an increasingly critical threat.

A very costly procedure of regaining the memory back.

CONCLUSION

We will be able to transfer ourselves into computers at some point.

It will bring both benefits and harm to human society.

Eventually aim of applying terrific computer power to the simulation of an entire brain.

Very soon this technology will be highly accepted whole over the world

Only serious threats raised are also overcome as we note the combination of biological and digital technologies.

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