Blue Brain

Seminar On:
Blue Brain
INSTRUMENTATION
Submitted by:- Guide:-Prof. Umesh

Ujjwal Thorat Thotkar
PRN:-1521054
CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN
 WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN
 FUNCTION OF NATURAL BRAIN
 BRAIN SIMULATION
 BLUE BRAIN OBJECTIVES
 HOW BLUE BRAIN WORKS
 BLUE BRAIN POWER
 ARTIFICIAL BRAIN
 BENEFITS OF BLUE BRAIN
 ADVENTAGES AND DISADVENTAGES
 CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
 Human brain, the most valuable creation of
God.The man is called intelligent because of
the Brain.But we loss the knowledge of a
brain when the body is destroyed after the
death .
 “BLUE BRAIN”- The name of the world’s first

virtual brain. That means a machine that can
function as human brain.
 Is it really possible to create a human brain?

WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN
 TheIBM is now developing a virtual brain
known as the BLUE BRAIN.
 Itwould be the worlds first virtual brain.

Within 30 years, we will be able to scan
ourselves into the computers.
BLUE BRAIN
WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN
A machine that can function as brain .
 It can take decision.
 It can think.
 It can respond.
 It can keep things in memory.

WHY WE NEED VIRTUAL BRAIN
 To upload contents of the natural brain into
it .
 To keep the intelligence , knowledge and

skill of any person for ever .
 To remember things without any effort .

FUNCTIONING OF BRAIN
 Sensory Input :-
Receiving input such as sound ,image, etc

through sensory cell .
 Interpretation.
Interpretation of the received input by the brain by

defining states of neurons in the brain.
 Motor Output.
Receiving of electric responses from the brain to

perform any action .
BRAIN SIMULATION
NATURAL BRAIN VS SIMULATED BRAIN
 INPUT  INPUT
 Through the natural neurons.  Through the silicon chip
or artificial neurons.
 INTERPRETATION  INTERPRETATION
 By a set of bits in the set  By different states of the
of register . neurons in the brain.
BRAIN SIMULATION
 OUTPUT  OUTPUT
 Through the natural  Through the silicon chip .
neurons.
 PROCESSING  PROCESSING
 Through arithmetic and  Through arithmetic and
logical calculations. logical calculation and
artificial intelligence .
BRAIN SIMULATION
 MEMORY  MEMORY
 Through permanent states  Through Secondary
of neurons . memory
 Now there is no question how the virtual brain

will work. But the question is how the human
brain will be up loaded into it. This is also
possible due to the fast growing technology.
UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN
 The uploading is possible by the use of small robots
known as the nanobots.
 These robots are small enough to travel through out

our circulatory system.
 Traveling into the spine and brain, they will be able

to monitor the activity and structure of our central
nervous system.
 They will be able to provide an interface with

computer that is as close as our mind can be while
we still reside in our biological form .
UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN(CONT….
)
 Nanobots could also carefully scan the structure of
our brain, providing a complete readout of the
connection.
 This information, when entered into a computer,

could then continue to function as us.
 Thus the data stored in the entire brain will be

uploaded into the computer.
EXAMPLE OF BLUE BRAIN
 A very good example of utilisation of blue brain is the case "
short term memory".
 In some movies we might have noticed that a person might

be having short term memories.
 A another situation is that when a person gets older, then he

starts forgetting or takes a bit more time to recognise to a
person.
 For the above reason we need a blue brain.It ia simple chip

that can be installed into the human brain for which the short
term memory and volatile memory at the old age can be
avoided.
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
REQUIRMENT
 A Super computer.
 Memory with a very large storing capacity.
 Processor with a very high processing power.
 A very wide network.
 A program to convert the electric impulses from the brain to input signal, which is to be
received by the computer and vice versa.
 Very powerful Nanobots to act as the interface between the natural brain and the
computer.
 The Blue Brain has some 8,000 processors which map one or two simulated brain
neurons to each processor, making the computer a replica of 10,000 neurons.
BLUE BRAIN PROJECT OBJECTIVES
 The project will search for insights into how human
beings think and remember.
 Scientists think that blue brain could also help to

cure the Parkinson's disease.
 The brain circuitry is in a complex state of flux, the

brain rewiring itself every moment of its existence.If
the scientists can crack open the secret of how and
why the brain does it, the knowledge could lead to
new breed of supercomputers.
HOW THE BLUE BRAIN PROJECT
WILL WORK
 The neocortex is the largest and most complex part of the
human brain, and constitutes about 85 per cent of the brain's
total mass.
 The neocortex is thought to be responsible for the cognitive

functions of language, learning, memory and complex thought.
 The simulated neurons will be interconnected with rules the

team has worked out about how the brain functions.
 This result would develop a simulated model known as

“Bluebrain”.
THE "BLUE BRAIN" & HUMAN
CONSCIOUSNESS
 "Blue Brain" offer a better understanding of human
consciousness.
 It’s an actual ‘computer brain’ that may eventually

have the ability to think for itself.
 When it was first fed electrical impulses, strange

patterns began to appear with lightning-like flashes
produced by ‘cells’ that the scientists recognized
from living human and animal processes. "It
happened entirely on its own,"
THE "BLUE BRAIN" & HUMAN
CONSCIOUSNESS(CONT..)
 This helped the scientists to understand the actual
processing of the brain which arised the concept of
“Blue brain”.
 Blue brain acts as a computer that would operate at

inconceivable speeds – something fast enough to
simulate the human brain.
 A Blue brain aims to unlock the secrets of brain by

using the brute power of a supercomputer.
FLASHES OF ACTIVITY
 Blue Brain started
producing flashes of
activity that scientists
recognized from
measurements of
natural brain behavior -
- on its very first day. "
It happened entirely on
its own“.
BLUE BRAIN POWER
 The human brain has 100 billions,nerve cells that
enable us to adapt quickly to an immense array of
stimuli.
 Blue brain is a technology that uses “Blue Gene” a

supercomputer capable of processing 228 TFLOPS.
 The main aim of blue brain is to build an software

replica or template which could reveal many
exisiting aspects of the brain circuits,memory
capacity,and how memories are lost.
BLUE BRAIN POWER(CONT…)
 Themodeling is also able to work out best
way to compensate and repair error circuits .
 Theblue brain model can be used to detect

and test treatment statergies for
neurological diseases.
EXPERIMENTS ON BLUE BRAIN
 Scientists
rely on computer models to
understand the toughest concepts in
science.
A computer model is being designed to take

on the human brain.
A generic template is build which allows us

to reconstruct a brain according to any
specifications.
'BLUE BRAIN': AN ARTIFICIAL BRAIN COMES
TO LIFE IN SWITZERLAND
 The machine is beautiful as it wakes up – it means
it works in a fine way when started.Nerve cells
flicker on the screen , along with that electrical
charges are produced.
 This piece of hardware consists of about 10,000

computer chips that act like real nerve cells.
 The simulation was created at the Technical

University in Lausanne, Switzerland, where 35
researchers participate in maintaining this artificial
brain.
'BLUE BRAIN': AN ARTIFICIAL BRAIN COMES
TO LIFE IN SWITZERLAND
 Itruns on one of the world's most powerful

supercomputers.
 The goal is to build a much bigger electronic

thinking machine -- one that would
ultimately replicate the human brain .
 "Blue Brain," is the most radical attempt so

far to investigate the mystery of
consciousness.
BLUE BRAIN IN LAUSANNA,
SWITZERLAND
 The "Blue Brain" supercomputer in Lausanne,

Switzerland.
BLUE BRAIN MODEL
VISUALISATION
 A visual representation of a
mammalian neocortical
column.
 The basic building block of
the cortex.
 The representation shows the
part of the brain which has
been modeled using a
supercomputer.
 The visualization is part of
an ambitious project to
create a biologically accurate,
functional model of the brain
using IBM's Blue Gene
supercomputer.
RIDDLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
A human brain
consists of 100 billion
nerve cells. A
supercomputer
simulating an organ
using current
technology - would
produce a virtual
human brain.
BLUE BRAIN SIMULATION USING
MICROPROCESSOR
 The Blue Brain simulation
uses one microprocessor
for each of the 10,000
neurons in the cortical
column of a rat's cerebral
cortex.
It helps to build a brain
microcircuit, in order to
scale it in human brain.
BENEFITS OF BLUE BRAIN
 It acts as a supercomputer.
 Improvements in processing,speed and memory

could make entire human brain simulated.
 Things could be remembered without any effort.
 Use the intelligence of the person after death.
 It can make decisions entirely of its own.
 Allowing the deaf to hear via direct nerve

simulation.
ADVENTAGES OF BLUE BRAIN
 Blue brain is an approach to store and utilize human

intelligence and information present in the mind
even after human demise.
 It is an important move towards self -decision
making by the computer or machine that holds a
Blue brain.
 Business analysis, attending conferences, reporting,
etc. are very significant functions that an intelligent
machine can do consistently.
 It can be used as an interface between human and
animal minds. The BBP has become successful in
rat and some other animals which is a sign of
success.
 It a good remedy towards human disability like a
deaf can get the information via direct nerve
stimulation.
DISADVANTAGES OF BLUE BRAIN
 We become dependent upon the computers.
 Another fear is found with respect to human

cloning.
Avery costly procedure of regaining the

memory back.
CONCLUSION
 Will
be able to transfer ourselves into the
computer at some point.
 Eventuallyaim of applying terrific computer

power to the simulation of an entire brain.
 Very
soon this technology will be highly
accepted whole over the world.
REFERENCE
[1] Blue Gene: http://www.research.ibm.com/
bluegen
[2] The Blue Brain Project: http://bluebrainproject.
epfl.ch
 www.google.com
 www.wikipedia.com
 www.studymafia.org
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Submitted by:- Guide:-Prof. Umesh

 “BLUE BRAIN”- The name of the world’s ﬁrst

 Is it really possible to create a human brain?

 Itwould be the worlds ﬁrst virtual brain.

 It can take decision.

 It can keep things in memory.

 To keep the intelligence , knowledge and

 To remember things without any effort .

Receiving input such as sound ,image, etc

Interpretation of the received input by the brain by

Receiving of electric responses from the brain to

 Now there is no question how the virtual brain

 These robots are small enough to travel through out

 Traveling into the spine and brain, they will be able

 They will be able to provide an interface with

 This information, when entered into a computer,

 Thus the data stored in the entire brain will be

 In some movies we might have noticed that a person might

 A another situation is that when a person gets older, then he

 For the above reason we need a blue brain.It ia simple chip

 Memory with a very large storing capacity.

 Processor with a very high processing power.

 A very wide network.

 Scientists think that blue brain could also help to

 The brain circuitry is in a complex state of ﬂux, the

 The neocortex is thought to be responsible for the cognitive

 The simulated neurons will be interconnected with rules the

 This result would develop a simulated model known as

 It’s an actual ‘computer brain’ that may eventually

 When it was ﬁrst fed electrical impulses, strange

 Blue brain acts as a computer that would operate at

 A Blue brain aims to unlock the secrets of brain by

 Blue brain is a technology that uses “Blue Gene” a

 The main aim of blue brain is to build an software

 Theblue brain model can be used to detect

A computer model is being designed to take

A generic template is build which allows us

 This piece of hardware consists of about 10,000

 The simulation was created at the Technical

 Itruns on one of the world's most powerful

 The goal is to build a much bigger electronic

 "Blue Brain," is the most radical attempt so

 The "Blue Brain" supercomputer in Lausanne,

 Improvements in processing,speed and memory

 Things could be remembered without any effort.

 Use the intelligence of the person after death.

 It can make decisions entirely of its own.

 Allowing the deaf to hear via direct nerve

 Blue brain is an approach to store and utilize human

 Another fear is found with respect to human

Avery costly procedure of regaining the

 Eventuallyaim of applying terriﬁc computer

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