Alife approach to find out about brain

Seed magazine has an excellent article on the Blue brain project; a project that has model one cortical column of a rat and plans to simulate the whole brain of a rat + an animat body and then a human brain. The simulation is done to get a model to check results with, to use it for engineering purposes and to understand the brain. Modeling something we don’t know about that much to understand it; doesn’t that sound like an alife approach?

Last post until Jan 13

After doing my exams I’m going on vacation (where I plan not to touch any electronic devices) and I’ll be back Jan 12. I hope the latest postings and the two new blogs keep the regular readers of this blog occupied until I came back.