This is getting scary, some scientiests are getting worried as well, albeit they don't know why... "The Human Brain Project (HBP) is a large 10-year scientific research project, established in 2013, directed by the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and largely funded by the European Union, which aims to simulate the complete human brain on supercomputers to better understand how it functions.[1] The project is based in Geneva, Switzerland.[2] Among other goals, the project aims to build a full computer model of a functioning brain to simulate drug treatments.[3] The project is coordinated by Professor Henry Markram.[4][5][6]" "Criticism An open letter was sent on 7th July 2014 to the European Commission by 154 European researchers (currently 198 signatures) complaining of an overly narrow approach which they claim gives a significant risk that it will fail to meet its goals, and threatening to boycott the project.[32] Central to this controversy are changes made by Henry Markram at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology to sideline cognitive scientists who study high level brain functions, such as thought and behaviour. Peter Dayan, director of computational neuroscience at University College, London, argues that the goal of a large-scale simulation of the brain is radically premature.[33]" Human Brain Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
