International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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Blue Brain Technology

Priyanka Pramod Gawankar, Sangle Sanket Chandrakant, Mane Karan Shahaji
Department of Computer Engineering, Zeal College of Engineering and Research, Narhe Pune, Maharashtra,
India

ABSTRACT

Article Info After death, the human body gets destroyed, brain stops working and human
Volume 8, Issue 1 eventually loses his/her knowledge of the brain. But this knowledge and information
Page Number : 351-354 can be preserved and used for thousands of years. The Blue Brain Project is an
attempt to reverse engineer the human brain and recreate it at the cellular level
Publication Issue : inside a computer simulation.
January-February-2022 At present scientists are trying to make a brain that can think, store information,
respond and make decisions. The object of this project is to use the brain of the
Article History people even after death. The blue brain is based on reverse engineering. Reverse
Accepted :20 Feb 2022 engineering is used to know how brain functions work through detailed
Published: 28 Feb 2022 supercomputer-based reconstructions and simulations. Blue brain project is used to
create a digital reconstruction of the brain. This project can help in memorizing the
things which we often forget.
The name of the first artificial brain. It means that machine can perform a function as
human brain. . The aim is that examine human brain into machine. that way human
will think, take decision do not take any effort. when destroy the body, the
knowledgeable person destroy all intelligence. artificial brain will be act as man
society. No one has ever understood the complexity of human brain. It is difficult
than any circuitry in the world. So, question may rays “Is it really possible to create a
human brain?” The answer is “Yes”. Because whatever person has created today
always he has followed the nature. When man does not have any device called
computer, it was a big question to all human society. But today it is possible due to
the vast technology. Technology is growing faster than other. IBM is now in research
to create a artificial brain. It is called “Blue brain.
Keywords - Blue-brain, Brain, Neurons, artificial neurons, Sensory system Nanobots

I. INTRODUCTION store information, respond and make decisions. The

object of this project is to use the brain of the people
Blue Gens supercomputer is used in the blue brain even after death. When a person dies at that time the
project which is developed by IBM. At present brain stops working so we cannot use his/her brain
scientists are trying to make a brain that can think, but we can use his/her brain after his/her death by

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using blue brain technology. In this technology, a II. LITERATURE SURVEY

person’s brain is uploaded into the computer. It makes
computer able to think and take decisions [1]. This Human Brain is the most complicated creature on
project aim is to reuse the knowledge and intelligence earth that will be demolished after certain decay of
of the person. This technology can help a lot in years. This research paper is based on the theoretical
continue the pending work. concept. How its intelligence can be preserved for
The human brain is a very complex system in this future use and what methodology is used for
world. It is a system with more than trillion of preserving it. It also discussed about its merits,
neurons (nerve cells) and synapses. The work of demerits and lots of other things that we can do with
neuron is to transmit information to other neurons or it.
cells. The work of synapses is to help neurons to speak This research paper also states the future scope of
with one another. Is it really possible to reuse the Blue Brain Technology. The actual need of this
brain of the person even after death? Yes, it is possible technology has been mentioned in this paper.
with the help of the blue brain project.[1]
III. NEED OF BLUE BRAIN
1.1 Glimpse of Blue Brain
Blue Brain Project is a Swiss brain research Initiative Intelligence is something that we cannot create, it is
led by Founder and Director Professor Henry an inborn quality. Some people born with intelligence
Markram. It is been developed by IBM. Within the and they can think up to such an extent where other
span of 30 years we will be able to scan ourselves into cannot reach. Intelligence is required for
the computer.[2] development. Human always require such
intelligence. But after the death, intelligence is lost
1.2 What is Blue Brain along with the body. Blue brain is solution to it. It
It is a Virtual Brain. A virtual brain is a brain which makes sure that intelligence will be alive even after
can think just like the natural human brain. It can the death. We can upload the knowledge of a person
make decisions and store information like a natural on a computer with the help of blue brain. We often
brain. A virtual brain can be created by using forget things such as people names, spellings of words,
supercomputers, with the large amount of processing important dates. Can’t we use machine to remember
power, storage capacity. Also, an interface is required things? Blue brain may be a better solution. [2]
between the artificial brain and human brain. By
using this interface, the information stored in the 2.1. Basic Steps of Blue Brain
human brain is uploaded in the personal computers.[3] 2.1.1. Information Collection
It is the process of collection of brain portions. The
neurons are captured by their physiological, electrical
activity and their shape. This information is
converted into algorithms. It defines function,
method and position methods of neurons. Algorithms
generate virtual neurons that look biologically-real
and ready for simulation.[2]
2.1.2. Information Simulation
It is used to deal with two major aspects.
Fig 1.1 Blue Brain i. Simulation workflow

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ii. Simulation speed ⮚ A program that can understand the function of

BBP-SDK allows the researchers to use simulations human brain.
and prototypes. BBP-SDK is a C++ library that is ⮚ Powerful Nanobots.[3]
wrapped in python and java. The primary software is
NEURON for neural simulations. It is developed by VI. RT NEURON
john Moore and Michael Hines at the starting of the
1990s. It uses Fortran, C++, and C. It is a free open RT Neuron is the main application that Blue Brain
source software that is freely available. The website Project uses for visualization of neural simulations.
provides the code and therefore the binary data The BBP team developed this software internally. It is
freely.[2] coded using C++ and OpenGL. RT Neuron is an ad-
2.1.3. Visualization of Results hoc software written specifically for neural
This Project uses RT Neuron which helps in simulations, i.e. it cannot generalized to other kinds
visualization of neural simulations. This software is of simulation.[5]
developed by the BBP team. It is coded using
OpenGL, C, and C++. Mostly this software is used for
neural simulations. RT Neuron delivers the output in
3D. This software help programmers to analyse things
between neurons. Many times, these animations are,
stopped, started, paused and zoomed. So that it can
allow researchers to interact with the model.
Generally, visualizations are multi-scale.[2]

IV. UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN

Fig 5.1 RT Neuron
Artificial brain makes use of small size robots also
known as Nanobots. These robots travel throughout VII. ADVANTAGES OF BLUE BRAIN
our cardiovascular system. These robots monitor the TECHNOLOGY
activity and structure of the nervous system. These
robots used to provide an interface which will close to ⮚ We can use a person’s intelligent even after his
our mind. Nanobots are used to scan the structure of death.
our brain so that it can readout the entire ⮚ This project can help a deaf to get information
connections. Thus, entire information which is stored directly via nerve stimulation.
within the brain, are uploaded into the pc.[4] ⮚ The information of the brain can be used to
provide a solution to mental disorder.
V. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ⮚ This machine will be able to think and make
REQUIREMENTS self-decision. [3]

⮚ A high speed Super computer VIII. DISADVANTAGES OF BLUE BRAIN

⮚ Large storing capacity Memory TECHNOLOGY
⮚ Processor
⮚ Large Community (network) ⮚ This will increase the dependency on the
computer

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⮚ Computer virus can be a critical threat XI. CURRENT ACHIEVEMENTS

⮚ This requires a large amount of memory and
processing power to create a virtual brain that In current achievements, The EPFL scientist had
could act as a natural completed their first draft of computer reconstruction
⮚ The machine can conduct war against humans of a piece of neocortex. Neocortex is that part of brain
as we are making machines intelligent. [3] where different type of neurons is located having
different functionalities like storing, transferring,
IX. FUTURE SCOPE sensing and etc. these neurons are useful for
researchers to study the behaviour of the brain and
⮚ In future this technology will be useful in also the flow of the signals through the neurons from
diagnosis of malfunction of human brain as well brain to sensory cell and vice versa. The electrical
as development of treatments for neurological behaviour of the virtual brain tissue was simulated on
disorders. supercomputer and found to match the no of
⮚ A start to a Digital Era in Neuroscience. behaviour in the human brain. The researchers
⮚ No more struggles for disabled people to performed tens of thousands of experiments on
communicate. neurons and synapses in the neocortex of young rat

⮚ An artificial brain comes to a life in and collected and studied each type of neurons and

Switzerland. A simulation was created with the synapses present in the neocortex [5]

piece of hardware that consists of 10,000

XII. CONCLUSION
computer chips that act like real nerve cells.[2]
⮚ Since blue brain technology takes a lot memory
This project success can change the world and
to store the information and the state that will
technology which we are using at present. There is a
be helpful in remembering the state to take
lot of research that takes decades, in these cases
decisions.
intelligence and efforts of the scientist can be used
⮚ In future this problem can be solved by the
even after their death. It is a complex task to create
new technology that would take less space and
duplicate brain into a system and it may take decades
store the large amount of data that will be
to complete but this project has the potential to
useful in remembering and taking decisions.
change the entire world.
⮚ One of the technique that we think about is the
brain based chip or the DNA based chip that has
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X. APPLICATIONS
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