Re:IBM building Blue Brain (full brain neuron simulator)
by pchristensen on Monday March 03, 2008 @05:36PM
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This is amazing - a complete simulation of a section of cortical column. And by complete, it's 400 subsimulations per neuron. Outstanding! Thanks IBM!
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Re:IBM building Blue Brain (full brain neuron simulator)
by mixmax on Monday March 03, 2008 @06:08PM
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This is one of the advantages of big companies: they can afford to do expensive stuff even though there is no immediate guaranteed return.
Re:IBM building Blue Brain (full brain neuron simulator)
by pchristensen on Monday March 03, 2008 @06:23PM
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Don't thank IBM, thank their clients that pay too much for consulting.
Re:IBM building Blue Brain (full brain neuron simulator)
by albertcardona on Monday March 03, 2008 @09:21PM
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Take the results with some salt. No matter how fascinating the results, if the model is wrong then there is no advancement in our knowledge of the brain.
As far as I know, they did not go the long and hard way of actually reconstructing a cortical column from sectioned tissue (as in electron microscopical imaging of serial sections of 60 nanometers in thickness).
What they have done, even if remarkable, is "simply" a simulation of a network built from statistical data gathered from many different studies of cortical columns.