The Blue Brain Project is attempting to recreate the brain in a super computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_brain

The Blue Brain Project is attempting to recreate the brain in a super computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_brain And Jeff Hawkin's (the founder of Palm Computing) has already put forth a fairly comprehensive theory on how the brain works in his book On Intelligence, and his group Numenta http://www.numenta.com/ http://www.numenta.com/ are currently working on a simplified computer implementation. Having read a fair amount into the topic, I'd say there's already enough information there to change how you might look at programming a certain task (especially if Numenta keeps pushing along). But it makes me think of humans more as complex memory machines rather than "compute-ers"