Seminar

On
BLUE BRAIN
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
 ADVENTAGES AND DISADVENTAGES
 CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
 Human brain, the most valuable creation of
God.The man 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 human brain?

WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN
 TheIBM is now developing a virtual brain
known as the BLUE BRAIN.

 Itwould be the worlds first virtual brain.Within

30 years, we will be able to scan ourselves into
the computers.
BLUE BRAIN
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 .

 Tokeep 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  INPUT
 Through the natural neurons.  Through the silicon chip or
artificial neurons.

 INTERPRETATION  INTERPRETATION
 By a set of bits in the set of  By different states of the
register . neurons in the brain.
BRAIN SIMULATION
NATURAL BRAIN VS SIMULATED BRAIN

 OUTPUT  OUTPUT
 Through the natural neurons.  Through the silicon chip .

 PROCESSING  PROCESSING
 Through arithmetic and  Through arithmetic and
logical calculations. logical calculation and
artificial intelligence .
BRAIN SIMULATION
NATURAL BRAIN VS SIMULATED BRAIN

 MEMORY  MEMORY
 Through permanent states of  Through Secondary memory
neurons .

 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 utilisation 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 recognise to a person.

 For the above reason we need a blue brain.It ia 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 could 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 could 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 as “Bluebrain”.

 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(CONT..)
 This helped the scientists to understand the actual
processing of the brain which arised 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 on its
own“.
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 could reveal many exisiting
aspects of the brain circuits,memory capacity,and how
memories are lost.
BLUE BRAIN POWER(CONT…)
 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 statergies 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 are
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

 Itruns on one of the world's most powerful

supercomputers.

 The goal is to build a much bigger electronic

thinking machine -- one that would ultimately
replicate the human brain .

 "Blue Brain," is the most radical attempt so far

to investigate the mystery of consciousness.
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 could 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.

ADVENTAGES OF BLUE BRAIN

 Blue brain is an approach to store and utilize human

intelligence and information present in the mind even after
human demise.
  It is an important move towards self -decision making by the
computer or machine that holds a Blue brain.
 Business analysis, attending conferences, reporting, etc. are
very significant functions that an intelligent machine can do
consistently.
  It can be used as an interface between human and animal
minds. The BBP has become successful in rat and some other
animals which is a sign of success.
  It a good remedy towards human disability like a deaf can
get the information via direct nerve stimulation.
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.

 Eventuallyaim of applying terrific computer

power to the simulation of an entire brain.

 Verysoon this technology will be highly

accepted whole over the world.
REFERENCE
 www.google.com
 www.wikipedia.com

 www.studymafia.org
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