The BBC has just reported that British scientists at the University of Manchester are set out to build the first machine capable of mimicking the complex interactions of the human brain. The computer, nicknamed the “brain box“, will cost 1million pounds, well over $1 million. With it, researchers hope to learn how to engineer fail-safe electronics.
Scientists believe that biological systems can be of great help to understand and create improved and more reliable computer systems. But how would scientists go about doing this?
The human brain, unlike a computer system, has been shown to keep functioning despite the failure of component neurons - in the case of a computer, it would be computer parts.
Apparently, the key to the success of the project is what scientists refer to as “spikes”. These are bursts of activity in the human brain caused by groups of neurons working together. Such spikes are in turn responsible for generating the characteristic wave patterns that show on electroencephalograms.
Using many microprocessors, researchers hope that the new machine can model the interactions between networks of neurons. So by learning more about how the brain works at the spike pattern level, it might be possible to create computers that keep functioning despite failure of component parts.
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There is no tasker to comment to directly,but if the author would so desire,there is a very special reason that brain keeps providing process.Us grid scientists know the brains operational stragem and I assure you they are better served to just get some equipment from Best Buy,complete with its own crystalline silicon chip,as the human brain has the same thing “GROWN” that stores its program.No mystery to me.Its so small and has more processing capacity than your newest version from Intel,I assure you. The chambers of the brain are just for tonal propagation and each sector has the nerve feeds for those functions ,but intellect is just a little more than a big grain of sand. Give them that,and task them to understand that computer chips “ARE” mmodeled after the human intellect core.