The Blue Brain Project

An interview with the researcher - Prof. Idan Segev.

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  Science & Technology

[jaysteinbourg]

I hope he does'nt plan to run the brain on a Windows based system, itll keep on fainting.

[Deosu]

I'm moved by this man's passion and determination. Many people around the world are concerned with improving how fast their car can go, or how many pixels they have on their High Definition screens, but he wants us to understand the driving force behind all our actions, behind all those desires, the brain itself. I'm eager to see where this project leads us 10-20 years from now. I urge you all to support him as well.

[cpluplus]

the modeling of the project or creating a simulation of the brain needs to address the input representation such as smell touch vision hearing and taste... vision and hearing can be modeled but as a programmer don't see any representation of taste smell and touch... but guess that needs further research researched

[TheMathShaman]

Please. You're having a gut reaction.

This is science. It can be used to improve our understanding of ourselves. Anything malicious done with knowledge is usually the fault of governments, militaries, churches and the like, you know, all the friendly neighborhood organizations who usually hate progress and knowledge.

What's creepy is that you'd immediately mistake noble intentions for a hollywood movie plot.

[LIFEIZTOOLTOOLIZLIFE]

*creeepay*

[HarrisonTStudent]

better than one with no access to itself

[mzoltan14]

This is true, but being selfish is not a yes or no thing, there are amounts of selfishness also (i don't know how to measure it). Anyway, they decapitate mice and do stuff like that, even more bizarre, because they have no better tools yet, and they are in hurry for some reason. They won't be moved by your resoning, because they see everything as an object (maybe). If you develop better tools for them, they won't kill animals. So more nanotechnology people are needed.

[CebuLightsandMusic]

17,508 people are technologically informed.

[mightymouse1470]

And once the unearthly speech completes, the brain goes dead just like the brain of someone already in the morg and they are thinking they are going to have to scrap the whole thing.

[mightymouse1470]

I would be surprised if he turns the brain on, it instead suddenly speaks in an unearthly voice saying "Hear me, ole children of Earth. Behold, I am Gaia, the living soul of this planet. The professor here is a great deceiver. He has misused my power for his own petty edge. I say onto thee, Gaia is not a source of hatred, but a beacon of hope. In times gone by, Earth was a paradise, it can be again. But thou must reject the dark ways of the professor and step into the light. The choice is thy."

[Keim4ever]

well then I guess curing all sorts of viruses was also a selfish act? I guess telling people what foods are healthy is also selfish since it generally will only affect us. This is a very meaningful project that will be going underway, and just because it will only effect humans and not every single species on the planet doesn't make it selfish.

[brucecab]

When mice start to decapitate us so that they can understand how their brains work, then I'll be impressed. This project is only meaningful and important to one species, ours...how selfish and indulgent of Man. Way to go.