Dr Dharmendra Modha’s group at IBM has been simulating the whole brain one cell at a time. They started with cat brain simulation and have almost reached the whole brain simulation except it runs about 1542 times slower. This is a simulation of nearly 1.6 billion virtual neurons and 9 trillion synapses. The power consumption is surprisingly low and tells us that it is possible to simulate the human brain and hopefully, understand the human brain. Look at the website below to find out more…
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