A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
Henry Markram
I was always interested in curing the brain.
All evidence indicates that the neuron does not reset. The synapses do not reset. They are always different. They're changing every millisecond.... →
Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians.... →
We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city... →
Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It's capable of generating an enormous number of phenomena, some of them very obvious... →
The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So I can say with some certainty... →
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.
Brit Marling
I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.
Groucho Marx
The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
Natalie Massenet