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Reverse Engineering the Brain

October 25, 2017November 21, 2017 Joel Frohlich 0 Comments BBP, Benoit Mandelbrot, Bewusstsein, Blue Brain Project, complexity, Consciousness, Das Gehirn nachbauen, David Marr, emergence, emergent properties, emergente Eigenschaften, Gehirn, HBP, Henry Markham, Hirnforscher, human brain project, IBM, Intelligence, Intelligenz, levels of analysis, Mandelbort set, Marr's levels of analysis, models, Neurowissenschaft, Neurowissenschaftler, Nichtlinearität, nonlinearity, orphan receptors, Reductionism, Reduktionismus, reverse engineering, Selbstorganisation, Self-organization, supercomputer, tripartite synapse, Waisenrezeptoren

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