Re:Can The Human Brain Project be saved, and should it be?
by TheHeasman on Monday February 16, 2015 @12:44PM
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"When a distinguished but elderly scientist says that something is possible, (s)he is almost certainly right. When (s)he says it is impossible (s)he is very probably wrong." - Arthur C Clarke
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Re:Can The Human Brain Project be saved, and should it be?
by SapphireSun on Monday February 16, 2015 @01:27PM
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The reason these scientists are upset is because we are no where near being able to do this. They're not saying we can't do it someday, just that it's a crazy waste of money right now. We don't know enough about the brain to make reasonable full scale models of it yet.