Whole Brain Simulation Task

A Whole Brain Simulation Task is an brain simulation task to simulate a brain.

• Example(s):
  • a Whole Human Brain Emulation Task.
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Partial Brain Emulation.
• See: Human-level Intelligence.

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References

2008

• (Sandberg & Bostrom, 2008) ⇒ Anders Sandberg, and Nick Bostrom. (2008). "Whole Brain Emulation." Technical Report #2008-3, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University.
  • QUOTE: Whole brain emulation (WBE), the possible future one-to-one modelling of the function of the human brain, is academically interesting and important for several reasons: ...

2013

• http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2013/20130802_1/
  • QUOTE: ... If peta-scale computers like the K computer are capable of representing 1% of the network of a human brain today, then we know that simulating the whole brain at the level of the individual nerve cell and its synapses will be possible with exa-scale computers hopefully available within the next decade,” explains Diesmann ...

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