Human Cognome Project

The Human Cognome Project seeks to reverse engineerthe human brain, paralleling in many ways the Human Genome Projectand its success in deciphering the human genome. The HCP is a multidisciplinary undertaking, relevant to, among others: biology, neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligenceand philosophy of mind.

Analytical techniques used in the Human Cognome Project include:

• studying brain biology and chemistry in wet labexperiments,
• studying brain structure using frozen tissue sample scanning and imaging,
• studying brain activity and function using active neuroimaging,
  (spatial and temporal resolutions in successive generations of the technology are improving exponentially over time)
• studying brain development though the field of morphogenesis.
• studying brain disease, injury and dysfunction through the fields of brain pathology, neurologyand psychopharmacology, and
• studying psychology relative to brain structure and function through neuropsychology

The National Science Foundation(NSF) and other scientific research bodies have endorsed the Human Cognome Project.

Fundamental brain research as a primary enabler for creating augmented human intelligenceand smarter-than-human strong artificial intelligenceis recognized by many public figures, most notably entrepreneurs Ray Kurzweil, Jeff Hawkins, Bill Joyand Paul Allen, scientist Stephen Hawking, writer Arthur C. Clarke, and philosopher Max More.

References

• Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce, Report from Workshop, December 3-4, 2001.

External links

• Robert Horn's Human Cognome Project Page at Stanford University

• The Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience(founded by Jeff Hawkins)

• This Is Your Brain Online"Paul Allen?s $100 million for mapping the brain will produce the largest trove of biological data ever." Allen Brain Atlas

• BrainMaps.orgHigh-Resolution Brain Maps and Interactive Brain Atlases

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