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A brain in a supercomputer

Henry Markram · TED

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About

Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all the brain's 100,000,000,000,000 synapses.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2009
Speaker
Henry Markram
Year
2009
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Computer science, Psychology and the brain, Philosophy
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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