> This means that to emulate the near one quadrillion connections in the human brain would take about $10B today It's important though to recognize that we're

> This means that to emulate the near one quadrillion connections in the human brain would take about $10B today It's important though to recognize that we're still missing the appropriate software to run brains. Technically, BlueBrain can run a cat's cortex today. Practically though just pumping up the number of neurons and connections does not yield general intelligence or consciousness, so BlueBrain cannot actually run a cat. Just as an even bigger supercluster cannot just run a human-like intelligence, even though the processing power might be there. Furthermore, these are brute-force simulation ambitions. I would go out on a limb here and assert that we could actually run a human-level consciousness on much less hardware. Computers are very good at some things where our brains have to mount enormous infrastructure just in order to do OK.