{"id":163467,"date":"2023-05-07T02:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T07:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/how-the-human-brain-project-built-a-mind-of-its-own"},"modified":"2023-05-07T02:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T07:22:47","slug":"how-the-human-brain-project-built-a-mind-of-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/how-the-human-brain-project-built-a-mind-of-its-own","title":{"rendered":"How the Human Brain Project Built a Mind of its Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-the-human-brain-project-built-a-mind-of-its-own.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA human brain model can simulate an experiment a million times for many different conditions, but the actual human experiment can be performed only once or a few times,\u201d said Viktor Jirsa, a professor at Aix-Marseille University.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to such critiques, the HBP worked to restructure the effort in its early days with new leadership, organization, and goals that were more flexible and attainable. \u201cThe HBP got a more versatile, pluralistic approach,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/ins-amu.fr\/jirsaviktor\" target=\"_blank\">Viktor Jirsa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/leaps.org\/neuroscience\/particle-2\/about: blank\" target=\"_blank\">,<\/a> a professor at Aix-Marseille University and one of the HBP lead scientists. He believes that these changes fixed at least some of HBP\u2019s issues. \u201cThe project has been on a very productive and scientifically fruitful course since then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After restructuring, the HBP became a European hub on brain research, with hundreds of scientists joining its growing network. The HBP created projects focused on various brain topics, from consciousness to neurodegenerative diseases. HBP scientists worked on complex subjects, such as mapping out the brain, combining neuroscience and robotics, and experimenting with neuromorphic computing, a computational technique inspired by the human brain structure and function\u2014to name just a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA human brain model can simulate an experiment a million times for many different conditions, but the actual human experiment can be performed only once or a few times,\u201d said Viktor Jirsa, a professor at Aix-Marseille University. Responding to such critiques, the HBP worked to restructure the effort in its early days with new leadership, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163467","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}