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Reverse Engineering the Brain

By: Tori,Nina,Nick,Bamlak,Emily, Sam^2

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Solution 2: Uploading the Brain

Options

  • The Technology
  • supercomputer
  • speed of 36.4 petaflops
  • have 3.4 petabytes (3.4 x 10^12) of data
  • This will allow the human brain to be process and stored
  • Serial Sectioning
  • Uses frozen brain parts at nano scale
  • Scan and record each layer of the brain
  • Can create a neuro net
  • Brain Imaging
  • Create a functional 3D map of the human cortex during cognitive tasks
  • Functional MRI (FMRI) and Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
  • Storing
  • virtual reality or simulated world supported by an anatomic 3D body simulation model
  • exist in a computer that’s inside (or connected to) a humanoid robot or a biological body.

Advantages:

Solution 1: Neuromorphic Chips

  • Simulate the processes and structure the human brain
  • Better understand the brain
  • Real world implications

Disadvantages:

  • Requires initial command
  • Only available in small objects
  • What are they?
  • Fast, low energy consuming electronic systems that function as sensory input
  • How will this be a solution?
  • electronic circuits mimic neuron firing mechanisms
  • similar to human brain in Size, speed, and use of energy

Artificial Intelligence

Problem

What do you call a blonde who dyed her hair brown?

  • We do not have the technology to understand the human brain
  • Computer capacity
  • Computer Multitasking

Background

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • What is Reverse Engineering ?
  • The process of learning from deconstruction
  • Benefits:
  • Understand long-term illness
  • Understand the human brain

Advantages:

  • Wouldn't require any major advancements in technology
  • Moore’s Law
  • "over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years"
  • supercomputer needed for the uploading eventually will be created.

Disadvantages:

  • Expensive
  • Multibillion production
  • Time consuming
  • labor intensive
  • Viewed as unethical

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