If the Blue Brain Project brain is to “speak and have an intelligence and behave very much as a human does,” which is how Markram described his goal in a BBC interview in 2009, then it will need to have sufficient content in its simulated neocortex to perform those tasks. 6 As anyone who has tried to hold a conversation with a newborn can attest, there is a lot of learning that must be achieved before this is feasible.
