Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved — soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they’re made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all the brain’s 100,000,000,000,000 synapses.
Posted by: Wildcat | October 19, 2009
Supercomputing the brain’s secrets-Henry Markram
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