You might want to look into what's called ANN -- artificial neural networks.
ANNs don't begin to scratch the surface of the scale or complexity of the human brain.
Not that they're not fun as toy models, or useful in their own right, just remember that they are oblivious to all human brain chemistry, and to chemistry in general.
Previous Open Thread: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/k9x/open_thread_may_26_june_1_2014/
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