Building on years of research, 82 researchers from institutions around the world reported Thursday that they had built a reconstruction of a section of a rat brain in a computer.
The research was partly supported by the Human Brain Project, a more than $1 billion, 10-year European research program. The report comes directly from the Blue Brain Project, which aims to reconstruct the rat brain and eventually the human brain in a computer.
Both research programs have been controversial. Hundreds of neuroscientists signed an open letter in 2014 criticizing both the overall project and the feasibility of the reconstruction goal.
As reported in the New York Times
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