I don't necessarily doubt the scientists' competence here, but they're just playing the fundraising game when they talk about "disease" in this context.
The Human Brain Project
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#12Damn. That's gangster.
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#13That's one billion Euros taxpayer money and you will not be reading the results in an open access journal any time soon.
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#14That's one billion Euros taxpayer money and you will not be reading the results in an open access journal any time soon.
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#15This sounds really interesting - I would definitely apply to work on such a thing. But I am scared away by the science career path. So optimistically you get to develop some neuro simulation code, maybe get a couple of papers out it. What do you do then? Who in industry hires people who worked on this kind of stuff? I'm not trying to be pessimistic - if I figure out a good idea then I'll go for it and apply.
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#16That's one billion Euros taxpayer money and you will not be reading the results in an open access journal any time soon.
From the website: http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/ict_platform.html
Neuroinformatics Platform,
Brain Simulation Platform,
Medical Informatics Platform
Extremely useful platforms that should be open. In addition to which I agree with you that they should allow access to their papers.
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#17That's one billion Euros taxpayer money and you will not be reading the results in an open access journal any time soon.
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Yes, but one day they will have - hopefully - results. And a commitment to publish in open access journals should have been part and parcel of a funding round like this. A billion is not exactly pocket change.
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#18At what resolution would you have to simulate the brain to get "human like" properties like consciousness? (quantum/subatomic? molecular? cellular? biologically inspired mathematical abstractions of neurons? simplest computationally useful mathematical abstractions of neurons - like current artificial nns?) - this is the question I find most interesting ..instead of unrealistic goals like predicting drug effects in-silico.
It would be helpful to run simulation algorithms with "tunable resolution" on supercomputers to see at what level the interesting properties appear. Though I have better hopes of seeing an answer to this question from the guys doing AI research than from a medical mega-research project or a collaboration... This is very different from the human genome project (where people alredy knew what information they needed and they put together resources to obtain it faster) that they try to imitate in the PR vids...
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#19That's one billion Euros taxpayer money and you will not be reading the results in an open access journal any time soon.
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Google Scholar lists about 855 papers mentioning the term "blue brain project", the Human Brain Project's predecessor:
http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=%22blue+brain+project%22&...
And even though the project has just launched, there are already about 1,980 papers mentioning the term "human brain project":
http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=%22human+brain+project%22...
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#20It seems they gave another billion to graphene research:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/28/us-eu-science-idUS...