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Reverse-Engineering the Brain

Computers and AI Benefits

  • New technologies can be implemented in hospitals that are better at treating the patients.
  • computers could potentially replace humans and the fear is that we could experience a Spy Kids effect.

Funding and Future Expections

  • Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) recently received $100 million of funding from the Obama Administration in order to map the human brain within the next decade.
  • BRAIN believes that they can accomplish a detailed map of the human brain, right down to the neurons and its connecters.

The Benefits of Reverse Engineering the Brain

  • better understanding of metal disorders such Alzheimers, Autism, and Schizophrenia.
  • With this knowledge, doctors can "rewire" the brain. Therefore, mental illnesses could potentially disappear.

Steps to Reverse Engineer the Brain

  • It's not just mental illnesses that could be cured, if scientist find out which neurons are connected to the certain body parts, they could cure blindness and Paralysis.

  • Act human
  • Think human
  • Act rational
  • Think rational

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Problems with Reverse-Engineering the Brain

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  • To reverse-engineer the brain, you must decode and simulate the cerebral cortex
  • 22 billion neurons
  • 220 trillion synapses
  • Analyzing all the complexities of nerve cell signals, their dynamics, pathways, and feedback loops, presents a major challenge.

Brain Teasers

Problems Cont.

  • The code itself is complex — neurons fire at different rates
  • Sometimes rapid bursts; sometimes it is slower
  • And much of mental function seems based on the firing of multiple neurons around the brain in synchrony
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