AVAILABLE TOOLS FOR WHOLE BRAIN EMULATION

Abstract

Whole brain emulation (WBE) has been, for a long time, the subject of interest for many science fiction productions and a subject for debate for many philosophers. This is one of the reasons why many mainstream scientists have remained skeptical about a scientifically sound approach to it. Whole brain emulation might be considered more complex than it actually is because of all the philosophical and methodological issues that people have been pointing out in the last decade. However, not everything that every brain and computer scientist had ever said needs to be taken into account when designing a realistic brain emulation system. In this paper I would like to give a brief overview of the relevant research for WBE coming from the neurosciences and how it can be combined with other disciplines in order to achieve the goals of WBE.