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In what is the largest and most significant effort to re-create the human brain to date, an international group of researchers has secured $1.6 billion to fund the incredibly ambitious Human Brain Project. For the next ten years, scientists from various disciplines will seek to understand and map the network of over a hundred billion neuronal connections that illicit emotions, volitional thought, and even consciousness itself. And to do so, the researchers will be using a progressively scaled-up multilayered simulation running on a supercomputer.And indeed, the project organizers are not thinking small. The entire team will consist of over 200 individual researchers in 80 different institutions across the globe. They’re even comparing it the Large Hadron Colllider in terms of scope and ambition, describing the Human Brain Project as “Cern for the brain.” The project, which will be based in Lausanne, Switzerland, is an initiative of the European Commission.
Read more at the Human Brain Project.