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As more and more computing cycles become available and we start to approach computers able to handle one quadrillion operations per second, this makes complete sense:

IBM links with Swiss team to build model of brain

From the article:

International Business Machines Corp. is linking with a team of Swiss scientists to create the world's first accurate, computer-based model of the brain, the company said Monday.

The researchers hope that modeling the brain at the cellular level will give new insights into the workings of the most complex organ in the body.

See also: Mission to build a simulated brain begins

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