Wow, Scientists Prepare Human Brain

Oxford - The development of science allows humans to create an artificial brain for the first time, in just 10 years. Such claims Swiss scientists who are members of the Blue Brain Project.

The scientists who joined in the project is the first time trying to be creative with their brains re-made nature of billions of brain neurons with the help of computers.

The plan, a synthetic human brain would be made that would be studied to understand how sensory information from the outside world is interpreted and stored. In addition, as a new way to study brain diseases without the need to experiment on animals.

Speaking at Oxford University, England, Professor Henry Markham as project director claims to have successfully simulated the brain neocortex, the part that is growing rapidly for handling social situations.

They are creative 3D simulation about 10,000 brain cells to mimic the properties of rat brain neocortex. The move makes them optimistic beginning to make the human brain with exactly the same function with the
original brain in 10 years.

"You need one laptop only to calculate a single neuron, so you need ten thousand laptops (to finish)," he said as quoted by the Guardian and quoted on Friday (24/7/2009).

So to carry out the process, they chose to use the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. Are they ambitious dream that would come true? Time will tell.