Brains working for an intelligent brain

Yes, a machine brain, perhaps much more intelligent than your own may someday be a reality, if scientists are to be believed. According to Prof Markram of the Brain Mind Institute at Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne, the artificial mind would render vivisection obsolete, conquer insanity and even improve human intelligence and ability to learn. What Markram’s ‘Blue Brain’ project amounts to is an audacious attempt to build a computerised copy of a brain — starting with a rat’s brain, then progressing to a human brain — inside one of the world’s most powerful computers, British newspaper the ‘ Daily Mail’ reported. So far, the team’s supercomputer — an IBM Blue Gene — is using the information gleaned from the slivers of real brain tissue, to simulate the workings of about 10,000 neurones, amounting to a single rat’s “neocortical column” — the brain’s part believed to be centre of conscious thought. That could do a human brain,” Prof Markram said, whose project is being funded by the Swiss government, the EU and private backers, including the computer giant