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To describe myself in less than 2 lines is impossible.

Building a brain inside a supercomputer Boing Boing. Blue Brain is an IBM computer built to simulate a human brain.

Building a brain inside a supercomputer Boing Boing

It's powered by 2,000 microchips, each acting as a single neuron, that enable it to execute 22.8 trillion operations per second. Based at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the project launched in 2005 to much controversy and skepticism. Modeling the complexity of the brain in a computer is considered a holy grail to some, and hubris to others.

Philosophy

Friedrich Nietzsche. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Philosophe allemand.