{"id":77103,"date":"2018-03-22T14:03:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/powerful-new-algorithm-is-a-big-step-towards-whole-brain-simulation"},"modified":"2018-03-22T14:03:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:03:06","slug":"powerful-new-algorithm-is-a-big-step-towards-whole-brain-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/powerful-new-algorithm-is-a-big-step-towards-whole-brain-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Powerful New Algorithm Is a Big Step Towards Whole-Brain Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/powerful-new-algorithm-is-a-big-step-towards-whole-brain-simulation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The renowned physicist Dr. Richard Feynman once said: \u201cWhat I cannot create, I do not understand. Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An increasingly influential subfield of neuroscience has taken Feynman\u2019s words to heart. To theoretical neuroscientists, the key to understanding how intelligence works is to recreate it inside a computer. Neuron by neuron, these whizzes hope to reconstruct the neural processes that lead to a thought, a memory, or a feeling.<\/p>\n<p>With a digital brain in place, scientists can test out current theories of cognition or explore the parameters that lead to a malfunctioning mind. As philosopher <a href=\"https:\/\/nickbostrom.com\/\">Dr. Nick Bostrom<\/a> at the University of Oxford <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dangers,_Strategies\">argues<\/a>, simulating the human mind is perhaps one of the most promising (if laborious) ways to recreate\u2014and surpass\u2014human-level ingenuity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/03\/21\/powerful-new-algorithm-is-a-big-step-towards-whole-brain-simulation\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9a67d84c99-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-9a67d84c99-58264949#sm.00199u8qc1eg7f7bycr2r2r8s5gtv\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/03\/21\/powerful-new-algorithm...2r2r8s5gtv<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned physicist Dr. Richard Feynman once said: \u201cWhat I cannot create, I do not understand. Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.\u201d An increasingly influential subfield of neuroscience has taken Feynman\u2019s words to heart. To theoretical neuroscientists, the key to understanding how intelligence works is to recreate it inside a computer. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77103","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}