Blue Brain is the name of the world's first virtual brain. A Virtual machine is one that can function as, a very appropriate application of an Artificial Intelligence human brain. Reverse engineering is a foremost concept of implementing the human brain and recreate it at the cellular level inside a complete simulation. The four major motivations behind the Blue Brain Technology are treatment of brain disfunctioning, scientific curiosity about consciousness and human mind, a bottom up approach towards building thinking machine and databases of all neuroscientific research results and related past stories.[1]

Figure 1. The Blue Brain Technology

Figure 1 shows there are three main steps 2to build the virtual brain are data acquisition, simulation and visualization of results. The mission is undertaking the Blue Brain technology is to gather all existing knowledge of the brain, raise the global research efficiency of reverse engineering and to build a complete theoretical framework. [1]

Blue Brain

Blue brain is the attempt by IBM to synchronize the real brain to an artificial brain. The project Blue was started on May 2005 by Henry Markam in Lusanne at EPFL, Switzerland. IBM expect they would complete this project by the year 2023.This aim is to know the human brain completely and creating an artificial one with the capability of real brain such as thinking, quick response, keeping things in memory intelligently. After the death of the body the virtual brain can act as the man whose data it holds. So that it is possible to use the intelligence, memory and knowledge of a person even after his death. [2]

Can One Upload Data to Blue Gene

Uploading brain data happens through the nanobots. The nanobots follow three main steps, namely:

Data Acquisition

Since the nanobots can pass through the human body’s circulatory system, they are able to collect human brain fragments and bring them under a microscope. This process allowed experts to study each neuron’s dimensions and electrical activity. All observations are then converted into algorithms that accurately describe each neuron’s process, functionality, and positioning methods. The algorithms then generate virtual neurons that are considered biologically similar to real-life ones. Once this is achieved, the neurons undergo simulation.

Data Simulation

The simulation process has two aspects:

• Speed: : At present, blue brain technology can run one second simulated time of neurons for five minutes. That means simulating 10,100 neurons or one cortical column would be 200 times slower than in real life. The only way to advance their performance is to precisely identify which functions are significant.
• Overflow: In this step, the algorithms aim to define and describe neurons as accurately as possible. They must adapt to the age and disease stage of the brain being simulated. First, the algorithms must develop a network skeleton that represents various types of synthesized neurons. Once done, the cells are combined based on predefined rules. Finally, the simulated neurons are brought to life and observed through visualization.

Data Visualization

Blue brain technology uses RT Neuron to visualize neural simulations. The software uses the outputs from the simulation and feeds them to a system so they can be viewed in 3D. That makes it easier for researchers and programmers to pause, stop, start, and zoom in on activities between neurons, allowing them to study the simulated brain in detail. [3]

References:

1. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6821571/references#references
2. https://www.mepits.com/tutorial/428/trending-technologies/blue-brain
3. https://www.techslang.com/definition/what-is-blue-brain-technology/

Cite this article:

Thanusri swetha J (2021) Blue Brain Technology, Anatechmaz, pp. 35