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Re:Can The Human Brain Project be saved, and should it be? by fiatmoney on Monday February 16, 2015 @12:39PM (#9058028)
For a vastly smaller-scale version of this, check out OpenWorm.

http://www.openworm.org

It defies understanding why one wouldn't start with a much simpler organism rather than trying to go directly to the human brain. For one thing, you can actually experiment on, e.g., a rat brain in a way that you can't on humans.

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Re:Can The Human Brain Project be saved, and should it be? by cr4zy on Monday February 16, 2015 @02:08PM (#9058562)
Hugely excited about OpenWorm!

More great stuff about the robotic embodiment of OpenWorm:

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligenc...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8745639

Eyewire.org is also really cool -- for example, they have already made an important discovery into how our eyes detect motion: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/online-gamers-help...

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Re:Can The Human Brain Project be saved, and should it be? by comex on Monday February 16, 2015 @12:53PM (#9058120)
The HBP plan does include simulating the mouse brain as an intermediate objective.
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Re:Can The Human Brain Project be saved, and should it be? by monk_e_boy on Monday February 16, 2015 @12:40PM (#9058038)
I guess you don't know unless you try.
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