Is this a distributed computing project like Seti@Home or Folding@Home?
Yes, but it has some notable differences, mainly that it will not be used for intensive computations only but also as a large neuronal simulator. ‘ What is the future system capacity? We intend to build a system that has the brain capacity of all people living in the world. This way we can ensure that no one will be left behind. Its capacity will go far beyond the petabyte scale. If someone would have the program source code would they be able to find out how knowledge is represented in the brain? Probably not. They won’t be able to understand the knowledge representation mechanisms even if they have the entire source code. They will be in the same situtation that neuroscientists are now, where they have access to a lot of biological information, yet they are unable to understand how knowledge is represented in the brain. The fact that the software program is a neural simulator doesn’t change the nature of the problem. It is only translated from one system (i.e. the brain) to another (
