By 2010 the Blue Brain project was expected to “challenge the foundations of our understanding of intelligence and generate new theories of consciousness”. It didn't happen and sadly the funding for the entire human brain in silico (Human Brain Project , HBP) came as a reward for failure.
At that time only a few scientists agreed that EU was going to invest in the wrong approach http://neuroelectrodynamics.blogspot.com/p/from-spike-timing-dogma-to.html . Today many scientists are boycotting HBP http://neurofuture.eu
Can the Human Brain Project Succeed? Is Markram right?
By accident, ten years ago we found that action potentials were not stereotyped signals and we called "spike directivity" this phenomenon.
More importantly such measure shows the presence of a different form of computation, more powerful and far more efficient than everything we know or have ever studied in computer science. However, in order to preserve the temporal coding theory it was a concerted effort to hide this information almost everywhere see http://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_Markram_right2
We are limited in our attempts to simulate the entire human brain on digital computers, the Human Brain Project is a scam and many other scientists start to realize this issue http://neurofuture.eu
In order to bring scientists together we will need a completely different project, with clear goals other than providing data (e.g. connectivity) or simulate the whole brain.
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