Artificial brain

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Artificial brain is the research to develop software and hardware that has cognitive abilities similar to the animal or human brain. The idea plays three important roles in science:

An ongoing attempt by the neuroscientists to understand how the human brain works.
A thought experiment in the philosophy of artificial intelligence, demonstrating that it is possible, in theory, to create a machine that has all the capabilities of a human being.
A serious long term project to create strong AI (a machine as intelligent as a human being), as proposed by Ray Kurzweil and others.

Very different approaches have been popularly termed artificial brains by researchers or the popular press. Some approaches include artificial neurons on a parallel platform, such as e.g. the CAM Brain Machine. Another interesting approach of artificial brain development is based on Holographic Neural Technology (HNeT) non linear phase coherence/decoherence principles. The analogy has been made to quantum processes through the core synaptic algorithm which has strong similarities to the QM wave equation.