{"id":91725,"date":"2019-06-06T18:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T01:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-crucial-role-of-brain-simulation-in-future-neuroscience"},"modified":"2019-06-06T18:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T01:22:27","slug":"the-crucial-role-of-brain-simulation-in-future-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-crucial-role-of-brain-simulation-in-future-neuroscience","title":{"rendered":"The Crucial Role of Brain Simulation in Future Neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-crucial-role-of-brain-simulation-in-future-neuroscience3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo we have a chance of ever understanding brain function without brain simulations?\u201d So asked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanbrainproject.eu\/en\/brain-simulation\/\">Human Brain Project<\/a> (HBP), the brainchild of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/human-brain-project-digital-simulation-neuron\/\">Henry Markram<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/fulltext\/S0896-6273(19)30290-9?rss=yes\">a new paper<\/a> in the prestigious journal <em>Neuron<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The key, the team argued, is to consider brain simulators in the vein of calculus for Newton\u2019s laws\u2014not as specific ideas of how the brain works, but rather as a programming language that can execute many candidate neural models, or programs, now and in the future. When viewed not as a vanity project, but rather as <em>the<\/em> way forward to understand\u2014and eventually imitate\u2014higher brain functions, the response to brain simulation is a resounding <em>yes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the brain\u2019s complexity and chaotic nature, the authors argue, rather than reining in simulation efforts, we need to ramp up and develop multiple \u201cbrain-simulation engines\u201d with varying levels of detail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/05\/30\/the-crucial-role-of-brain-simulation-in-future-neuroscience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo we have a chance of ever understanding brain function without brain simulations?\u201d So asked the Human Brain Project (HBP), the brainchild of Henry Markram, in a new paper in the prestigious journal Neuron. The key, the team argued, is to consider brain simulators in the vein of calculus for Newton\u2019s laws\u2014not as specific ideas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91725","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}