Can a computer work as human brain? SpiNNaker does

A human brain is lot more complex then the most advanced super computer available in the world today. But scientist has been working on developing artificial computer that is said to work as a human brain. In this project more than million high speed ARM processors are used to simulate the processing of a human brain. Yet, the important thing is that despite of one million processors, the proposed computer will be able to model only one percent of the work that actual brain does. Amazing isn’t it?
The computer that works as human brain is called as SpiNNaker. SpiNNaker stands for Spiking Neural Network architecture. Just like human brain, electrical impulses in SpiNNaker are circulated in form of data packets and these packets are sent to all connected neurons, the units of human brain. These connected neurons are represented as equations that are solved at run time of analysis by software embedded in ARM processors.

SpiNNaker has an edge here as compared to human brain because the computer will transmit these data packets at much higher speed than actual biological connection thus the spikes will be transmitted much faster improving the speed of simulation

This kind of simulation of human brain will benefit doctors, neuroscientists and genetic engineers to analyze the complexities of human brain and will also benefit to cure complex human brain diseases and injuries.

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