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Nisan comments on [LINK] Human Brain Project aims to emulate brain by 2024 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: malthrin 18 May 2011 10:38PM

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Comment author: Nisan 18 May 2011 11:37:09PM 0 points [-]

After reading the nextbigfuture article and hackernews thread, I still don't understand what this project plans to do.

Comment author: nhamann 19 May 2011 12:34:58AM *  2 points [-]

They appear to be aiming for whole brain emulation, trying to scale up previous efforts that simulated a rat neocortical column.