The Blue Brain and Connectome Project

Let me start with this: my mind has been blown. How? Just watch this TED Talk by Henry Markram regarding the Blue Brain project (link below):

But before you click on the link, let me give you a background as to what this project is. This Blue Brain Project is a project involving the mapping of all the neurons and neural synapses within the brain and to create a model brain in which we can do unimaginable things such as holograms with artificial intelligence and will give us the ability to finally understand what is going on in our brains as to how we are perceiving reality. In the beginning of the video, Markram explains the evolution and function of the neo-cortex and how our brain is a product of the universe. He then goes to explain the Blue Brain Project and how they plan on doing it, hopefully within the next ten years. If this is successful, we will finally have a firm grip in understanding the nature of our brain. I want to get involved, and I am sure many of you will too after watching this video.

http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.html

Be sure to check out the connectome project, similar to the Blue Brain Project, too! (linked below)

Sebastian Seung proposes the hypothesis that everything we know, all our memories and who we are, are all in our 'connectome,' which is a collection of all of our neural connections.

http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung.html