The Human Brain Project
The Human Brain Project won one of two billion-Euro research grants from the European Union. Over the next ten years, it aims to create a complete computer simulation of the human brain.
As the author of Upload, a thrilling sci-fi story about the first person to upload his consciousness into a computer, I'm keenly interested in this cutting-edge research into cognitive computing. It has the potential to bring futuristic technologies like those in Upload much closer. It also makes my fiction feel all the more relevant, as thought-leaders struggle with the possibilities and ethical implications surrounding simulation of the human mind.
There's a pretty good introductory video up at the Human Brain Project's website. Exciting stuff -- check it out. And then read my book to help stir your imagination!
As the author of Upload, a thrilling sci-fi story about the first person to upload his consciousness into a computer, I'm keenly interested in this cutting-edge research into cognitive computing. It has the potential to bring futuristic technologies like those in Upload much closer. It also makes my fiction feel all the more relevant, as thought-leaders struggle with the possibilities and ethical implications surrounding simulation of the human mind.
There's a pretty good introductory video up at the Human Brain Project's website. Exciting stuff -- check it out. And then read my book to help stir your imagination!
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Mark
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Feb 13, 2013 09:41PM
Upload centers around a project called the "Human Mind Upload Project"; I should mention that I came up with this name many years before the Human Brain Project came about. The similarity is coincidental.
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