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Joel Frohlich October 25, 2017November 14, 2023 BBP, Benoit Mandelbrot, Blue Brain Project, complexity, Consciousness, David Marr, emergence, emergent properties, Gehirn, HBP, Henry Markham, human brain project, IBM, Intelligence, levels of analysis, Mandelbort set, Marr's levels of analysis, models, nonlinearity, orphan receptors, Reductionism, reverse engineering, Self-organization, supercomputer, tripartite synapse

Reverse Engineering the Brain

Can we learn everything about the brain by studying individual brain cells? It started with a simple equation. In 1980, a mathematician named Benoit Mandelbrot working for IBM plotted the… Read More

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Joel Frohlich July 29, 2015September 24, 2017 80-20, Avalanche, Average, Blue Brain Project, Distribution, Fractal, Math, Mathematical, Model, Normal distribution, Power law, Reductionism, Scale Invariance, Self-organized criticality, SOC

Scale Invariance: A Cautionary Tale Against Reductionism

How long is the coast of Britain? It doesn’t matter how good your geography is — the answer depends on the size of your measuring stick. The coast of Britain… Read More

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Jooyeun Lee December 26, 2012March 5, 2017 BBP, Blue Brain Project, connectivity, connectome, cortical column, Model, morphology, Neuron, random, supercomputer

Before virtual brains could see and perform motor tasks as Kate described in the last post, large-scale brain models were being developed in order to identify the synaptic connections between… Read More

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Scale Invariance: A Cautionary Tale Against Reductionism

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