The Blue Brain project aims to create a biological accurate simulation of the human brain on a supercomputer and thus by reverse-engineering to understand how it functions.

So far, the project is simulating a neocortical column of a rat, that is about about 10,000 neurons and a total of about 30 million synaptic connections. 

However, the human brain has 100 billion neurons. Henry Markram, Head of the Blue Brain project, estimates that an entire brain would require the processing of 500 petabytes of data… What will happen, once it is feasible to scale up the project? Is it possible to put a ghost into a machine?  Is consciousness just a massive amount of information being exchanged by billions of brain cells (from Seed)?

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