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Towards understanding the brain
The Blue Brain Project has already shown the feasibility of the strategies proposed by its successor. Between 2005 and 2011, Henry Markram’s EPFL team developed a facility with the tools, the know-how and the supercomputing technology necessary to build models of the brain. This facility will provide a starting point for the development of the much larger facility planned in the Human Brain Project. This will be developed according to a well-planned roadmap. First, it will develop the capability to build models brain regions (“mesocircuits”), then of brain systems (“macrocircuits”) and finally of complete brains. Before attempting to simulate the complete Human brain, it will create the tools and knowhow to model simpler brains such as those of mice, rats, cats, and monkeys. As the project progresses the facility will develop the knowhow and tools to model and simulate the brain of any animal, at any stage of its development, in any state of health or with any specific disease.