Comments on: BLUEBRAIN – Year One: Documentary Film Preview

By: Can We Really Reverse-Engineer the Brain by 2030? « Futurefunk's Blog

Can We Really Reverse-Engineer the Brain by 2030? « Futurefunk's Blog — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:38:51 +0000

[...] There’s an interesting documentary on the stuff http://thebeautifulbrain.com/2010/02/bluebrain-film-preview/ [...]

By: Robot_Apocalypse

Robot_Apocalypse — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:22:26 +0000

I have always used the notion of death as a useful means of putting things in perspective; as a place holder for an existence so far from my current reality, but which cannot be escaped, that my current troubles will no longer matter.

Increasingly the notion of the ‘singularity’ seems to provide a far more potent substitute for death, in its power to evoke feelings of a relentless advance to an irresistible and inevitable ‘end’. An end not in the arms of death, but much like a baby still in its mother’s womb cannot hope to understand or imagine its existence after birth, the singularity, by its very definition, demands from humanity that we forfeit what we think makes us human for an existence unknown.

By: Antoine

Antoine — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:46:39 +0000

Fantastic project!
It reminds me a lot of the belgium comic “Alvin Norge”, where a great informatician produces a sowftare human brain, based on real slices of a murderer’s brain who gave is body to science. Besides all the “normal” functions, he also accidentaly copies the “abnormal” functions that made the man a criminal.
In the FAQ you said that you don’t really know what is consciousness. By replicating a brain based on a real model, do you think you can also copy its own specific functions (memories, traits), either on purpose or without even knowing it?
Anyway, this really has something scary…

PS: Maybe you answered these questions in the video, I can’t see it for now but still wanted to post my thoughts..

By: SciFoo 2010: a Conference from the Future : The Beautiful Brain

SciFoo 2010: a Conference from the Future : The Beautiful Brain — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:23:06 +0000

[...] session on Saturday evening, I presented year one of my ongoing Blue Brain Project documentary film project and received some invaluable feedback from those in attendance. The screening morphed into a lively [...]

By: The Forbin Project

The Forbin Project — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:53:58 +0000

If they are working on a whole brain, why has everything that’s been released to the public been limited to the neocortex? Where are the 3D-rendered pictures of simulated cerebellum, hippocampus, hypothalamus, spinal cord?

Come on Blue Brain, I want to see a simulated Purkinje cell! Surely you will need them, or else the poor sim-rat will be banging into the walls for sure.

By: Miron’s Weblog » Blue Brain Project Documentary – Year 1

Miron’s Weblog » Blue Brain Project Documentary – Year 1 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:43:55 +0000

[...] Hutton’s company Couple 3 Films has released year 1 of a 10 year documentary project documenting the Blue Brain project. The project includes Henry Markham’s work on reverse [...]