BLUE BRAIN TECHNOLOGY introduction as well as explanation

PRESENTATION ON
BLUE BRAIN
TECHNOLOGY

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN
WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN
FUNCTION OF NATURAL BRAIN
BRAIN SIMULATION
BLUE BRAIN OBJECTIVES
HOW BLUE BRAIN WORKS
BLUE BRAIN POWER
ARTIFICIAL BRAIN
BENEFITS OF BLUE BRAIN
CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION
Human brain is the most
valuable creation of God. A
person is called intelligent
because of the Brain. But we loss
the knowledge of a brain when
the body is destroyed after the
death .
“BLUE BRAIN”- The name of the
world’s first virtual brain. That
means a machine that can
function as human brain.
Is it really possible to create a

WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN ?
The IBM is now developing a virtual
brain known as the BLUE BRAIN.
It will be the worlds first virtual brain.
Within 30 years, we will be able to scan
ourselves into the computers.

WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN ?
A machine that can function as brain .
It can take decision.
It can think.
It can respond.
It can keep things in memory.

WHY WE NEED VIRTUAL BRAIN
?
To upload contents of the natural brain into it
.
To keep the intelligence , knowledge and skill
of any person for ever .
To remember things without any effort .

FUNCTIONING OF BRAIN
Sensory Input :-
Receiving input such as sound ,image, etc
through sensory cell .
Interpretation.
Interpretation of the received input by the brain by
defining states of neurons in the brain.
Motor Output.
Receiving of electric responses from the brain to perform
any action .

BRAIN SIMULATION
NATURAL BRAIN VS SIMULATED BRAIN
INPUT
Through the natural
neurons.
INPUT
Through the silicon chip
or artificial neurons.
INTERPRETATION
By different states of the
neurons in the brain.
INTERPRETATION
By a set of bits in the set
of registers.

BRAIN SIMULATION(CONTD…)
NATURAL BRAIN VS SIMULATED
BRAIN
OUTPUT
Through the natural
neurons.
OUTPUT
Through the silicon chip .
PROCESSING
Through arithmetic and
logical calculations.
PROCESSING
Through arithmetic and
logical calculation and
artificial intelligence .

BRAIN
SIMULATION(CONTD…)
NATURAL BRAIN VS SIMULATED
BRAIN
MEMORY
Through permanent states
of neurons .
MEMORY
Through Secondary
memory .
Now there is no question how the virtual brain will
work. But the question is how the human brain will
be up loaded into it. This is also possible due to
the fast growing technology.

UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN
The uploading is possible by the use of small
robots known as the nanobots.
These robots are small enough to travel
through out our circulatory system.
Traveling into the spine and brain, they will be
able to monitor the activity and structure of our
central nervous system.
They will be able to provide an interface with
computer that is as close as our mind can be
while we still reside in our biological form .

UPLOADING HUMAN
BRAIN(CONT….)
Nanobots could also carefully scan the
structure of our brain, providing a complete
readout of the connection.
This information, when entered into a
computer, could then continue to function
as us.
Thus the data stored in the entire brain will
be uploaded into the computer.

EXAMPLE OF BLUE BRAIN
A very good example of utilization of blue brain is
the case "short term memory".
In some movies we might have noticed that a
person might be having short term memories.
 A another situation is that when a person gets
older, then he starts forgetting or takes a bit more
time to recognize a person.
For the above reason we need a blue brain. It is
simple chip that can be installed into the human
brain for which the short term memory and
volatile memory at the old age can be avoided.

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
REQUIRMENT
A Super computer.
Memory with a very large storing capacity.
Processor with a very high processing power.
A very wide network.
A program to convert the electric impulses from the brain to input
signal, which is to be received by the computer and vice versa.
Very powerful Nanobots to act as the interface between the natural
brain and the computer.
The Blue Brain has some 8,000 processors which map one or two
simulated brain neurons to each processor, making the computer a
replica of 10,000 neurons.

BLUE BRAIN PROJECT OBJECTIVES
The project will search for insights into how
human beings think and remember.
Scientists think that blue brain can also help to
cure the Parkinson's disease.
The brain circuitry is in a complex state of flux,
the brain rewiring itself every moment of its
existence. If the scientists can crack open the
secret of how and why the brain does it, the
knowledge can lead to new breed of
supercomputers.

HOW THE BLUE BRAIN PROJECT WILL
WORK
The neocortex is the largest and most complex part
of the human brain, and constitutes about 85 per
cent of the brain's total mass.
The neocortex is thought to be responsible for the
cognitive functions of language, learning, memory
and complex thought.
The simulated neurons will be interconnected with
rules the team has worked out about how the brain
functions.
This result would develop a simulated model known

THE "BLUE BRAIN" & HUMAN
CONSCIOUSNESS
"Blue Brain" offer a better understanding of
human consciousness.
 It’s an actual ‘computer brain’ that may
eventually have the ability to think for itself.
When it was first fed electrical impulses,
strange patterns began to appear with
lightning-like flashes produced by ‘cells’ that
the scientists recognized from living human and
animal processes. "It happened entirely on its
own,"

THE "BLUE BRAIN" & HUMAN
CONSCIOUSNESS(CONTD..)
This helped the scientists to understand the actual
processing of the brain which aroused the concept of
“Blue brain”.
Blue brain acts as a computer that would operate at
inconceivable speeds – something fast enough to
simulate the human brain.
A Blue brain aims to unlock the secrets of brain by
using the brute power of a supercomputer.

FLASHES OF ACTIVITY
 Blue Brain started
producing flashes
of activity that
scientists
recognized from
measurements of
natural brain
behavior on its
very first day. “It
happened entirely

BLUE BRAIN POWER
The human brain has 100 billions, nerve cells that
enable us to adapt quickly to an immense array of
stimuli.
Blue brain is a technology that uses “Blue Gene” a
supercomputer capable of processing 228 TFLOPS.
The main aim of blue brain is to build an software
replica or template which can reveal many existing
aspects of the brain circuits, memory capacity, and
how memories are lost.

BLUE BRAIN POWER(CONTD…)
The modeling is also able to work out
best way to compensate and repair
error circuits .
The blue brain model can be used to
detect and test treatment strategies for
neurological diseases.

EXPERIMENTS ON BLUE BRAIN
Scientists rely on computer models to understand
the toughest concepts in science.
A computer model is being designed to take on
the human brain.
A generic template is build which allows us to
reconstruct a brain according to any
specifications.

'BLUE BRAIN': AN ARTIFICIAL BRAIN COMES TO
LIFE IN SWITZERLAND
The machine is beautiful as it wakes up – it means
it works in a fine way when started. Nerve cells
flicker on the screen , along with that electrical
charges produced.
This piece of hardware consists of about 10,000
computer chips that act like real nerve cells.
The simulation was created at the Technical
University in Lausanne, Switzerland, where 35
researchers participate in maintaining this artificial
brain.

The machine is beautiful as it wakes up – it means it
works in a fine way when started. Nerve cells flicker
on the screen , along with that electrical charges
produced.
This piece of hardware consists of about 10,000
computer chips that act like real nerve cells.
The simulation was created at the Technical
University in Lausanne, Switzerland, where 35
researchers participate in maintaining this artificial
brain.
'BLUE BRAIN': AN ARTIFICIAL BRAIN COMES TO
LIFE IN SWITZERLAND

BLUE BRAIN IN
LAUSANNA,SWITZERLAND
The "Blue Brain" supercomputer in Lausanne,
Switzerland.

BLUE BRAIN MODEL VISUALISATION
A visual representation of a
mammalian neocortical column.
The basic building block of the
cortex.
The representation shows the part of
the brain which has been modeled
using a supercomputer.
 The visualization is part of an
ambitious project to create a
biologically accurate, functional model
of the brain using IBM's Blue Gene
supercomputer.

RIDDLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
A human brain
consists of 100
billion nerve cells. A
supercomputer
simulating an organ
using current
technology - would
produce a virtual
human brain.

BLUE BRAIN SIMULATION USING
MICROPROCESSOR
The Blue Brain simulation uses one
microprocessor for each of the
10,000 neurons in the cortical
column of a rat's cerebral cortex.
It helps to build a brain microcircuit,
in order to scale it in human brain.

BENEFITS OF BLUE BRAIN
It acts as a supercomputer.
Improvements in processing, speed and memory could
make entire human brain simulated.
Things can be remembered without any effort.
Use the intelligence of the person after death.
It can make decisions entirely of its own.
Allowing the deaf to hear via direct nerve simulation.

DISADVANTAGES OF BLUE BRAIN
We become dependent upon the computers.
Another fear is found with respect to human
cloning.
A very costly procedure of regaining the memory
back.

CONCLUSION
Will be able to transfer ourselves into the
computer at some point.
Eventually aim of applying terrific computer
power to the simulation of an entire brain.
Very soon this technology will be highly
accepted whole over the world.

REFERENCE
 www.wikipedia.com
 www.google.com
 www.keynectup.org
www.youtube.com

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