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                                               Blue Brain

                                                                                                  Debasis Panda
                                                                                                        Head-IT
                 uman Brain, The most precious creation by GOD. In   The name of the world's first virtual brain is "BLUE
           H     intelligent persons, certain brain regions are more   aims to create a digital reconstruction of the brain by
                                                               BRAIN". The Blue Brain, a Swiss national brain initiative,
                 strongly involved in the flow of information between
           brain        regions.                               reverse - engineering mammalian brain circuitry, which
           Without a doubt, the                                can function as a human brain. It will be an artificial brain
           human characteristic                                that can think, response, take decision, and keep anything
           that sets us apart the                              in memory. Blue Brain Projects Objective is to upload
           most from the animal                                human brain into machine. The computer could then run
           kingdom is our                                      a simulation model of the brain's information processing,
           extraordinary brain.                                such that it responds in essentially the same way as the
           Damage to the brain                                 original brain. We can archive the knowledge,
           caused by an injury or                              intelligence, abilities, state of mind and memories of
           after death of human being. That knowledge might have   human being and can be used for the development of the
           been used for the development of the human society. It   human society post death. It is possible to create a human
           is not possible to copy or transfer someone's memories   brain because all creations as on followed by the nature
           to someone.                                         and possible due to faster technology growth. . IBM is
                                                               now in research to create a virtual brain (Blue Brain)
                                                               Why we need virtual brain?
                                                               • To upload contents of the natural brain into it.
                                                               • To keep the intelligence, knowledge and skill of any
                                                                 person forever.
                                                               • To remember things without any effort.
                                                               Function
                                                               Today's development is due to our intelligence which is an
                                                               inborn quality. Unfortunately we lose that level of
                                                               intelligence along with the body after death. Vartual brain
                                                               will be solution for recalling all human brain's database.
                                                               Technology of Virtual brain function will be similar human's
                                                               nervous system. Robot or nanobots are very small to travel
                                                               throughout the circulatory system. It will monitor the
                                                               activity and structure of central nervous system, scanning
                                                               of brain structure, current state of brain during movement
                     What happen if we create a brain and      into spine and brain. It will also provide complete internal
                  up load the contents of natural brain into it  layout of all neuron. All information will be come into into
                                                               computer system to function as human's brain to take
                                                               decision, think, response and keep things in memory.

                                   Natural Brain Vs Simulated Brain
                                                    Natural Brain                                Virtual Brain
                            Through the natural neurons            Through the silicon chip or artificial neurons
            Input
                            Through the sensory cells              Electric impulses
            Interpretation  Accomplished by the means of certain   By a set of bits in the set of register
                            states of many neurons in the brain.
            Output          Through the natural neurons            Through the silicon chip
            Processing      Past experience stored and the         Stored States and received input & by
                            current input                          performing some arithmetic and logical
                            Through arithmetic and logical         calculation
                            calculations                           Through arithmetic and logical calculation and
                                                                   artificial intelliaence
            Memory          Through permanent states of neurons    Through Secondary    memory


           jF As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action
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