Supercomputer, recreating the human brain, will help in the treatment of diseases
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Scientists are going to recreate the human brain, using the most powerful computer in the world. "Scientists are thinking of putting together all the information on the mysterious device of the brain that is available today and reproducing it on the screen in the smallest detail, at the level of individual cells and molecular compounds," explains journalist Tamara Cohen. Probably, this model will help to understand the root causes of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases , to understand how people think and make decisions.
The project is carried out by scientists from various European countries under the leadership of Henry Marcrem, who lives in Switzerland. Scientists hope to cope with work for 12 years, it is told in the note.
The "brain" will be thousands of three-dimensional images that will be placed around a semi-circular "cockpit". Researchers will literally "fly" over different parts of the brain and watch how they interact with each other. The goal - to reflect on one site all the results of neurobiologists around the world. Once a year, about 60 thousand articles are published in this field.
According to the journalist, this model of the brain can be used to test the latest pharmaceuticals, and will also help to increase the artificial intelligence of robots and computers.
"This is one of the three challenges posed to the human race: to understand the Earth, outer space and the brain." We need to understand what makes us human, "Marcrem said. Over the past 15 years, his laboratory has made a computer model of the cortical neural bundle - components of the brain of mammals.
When reproducing the human brain, one of the main difficulties is power supply: the computer requires the energy of an entire nuclear power plant, notes the author of the note