{"id":149789,"date":"2022-11-09T15:26:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/examining-the-optimal-working-conditions-for-the-brain-as-a-model-for-new-computers"},"modified":"2022-11-09T15:26:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T21:26:22","slug":"examining-the-optimal-working-conditions-for-the-brain-as-a-model-for-new-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/examining-the-optimal-working-conditions-for-the-brain-as-a-model-for-new-computers","title":{"rendered":"Examining the optimal working conditions for the brain as a model for new computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/examining-the-optimal-working-conditions-for-the-brain-as-a-model-for-new-computers3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With mathematical modeling, a research team has now succeeded in better understanding how the optimal working state of the human brain, called criticality, is achieved. Their results mean an important step toward biologically-inspired information processing and new, highly efficient computer technologies and have been published in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn particular tasks, supercomputers are better than humans, for example in the field of artificial intelligence. But they can\u2019t manage the variety of tasks in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/everyday+life\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">everyday life <\/a>\u2014driving a car first, then making music and telling a story at a get-together in the evening,\u201d explains Hermann Kohlstedt, professor of nanoelectronics. Moreover, today\u2019s computers and smartphones still consume an enormous amount of energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are no sustainable technologies\u2014while our brain consumes just 25 watts in everyday life,\u201d Kohlstedt continues. The aim of their interdisciplinary research network, \u201cNeurotronics: Bio-inspired Information Pathways,\u201d is therefore to develop new electronic components for more energy-efficient computer architectures. For this purpose, the alliance of engineering, life and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/natural+sciences\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">natural sciences<\/a> investigates how the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/human+brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human brain<\/a> is working and how that has developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With mathematical modeling, a research team has now succeeded in better understanding how the optimal working state of the human brain, called criticality, is achieved. Their results mean an important step toward biologically-inspired information processing and new, highly efficient computer technologies and have been published in Scientific Reports. \u201cIn particular tasks, supercomputers are better than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,2229,42,6,44,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-mathematics","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}