Henry Markram Quotes

Henry Markram — Israeli Scientist born on December 30, 1962,

Henry Markram is a Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and director of both the Blue Brain Project and the Human Brain Project... (wikipedia)

The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So I can say with some certainty, 'I think therefore I am.' But I cannot say, 'You think therefore you are,' because you are within my perceptual bubble.

99 percent of what you see is not what comes in through the eyes. It is what you infer about that room.

Think of a forest, then imagine taking 10,000 trees and squeezing them together until there is essentially no space between them. That's what the neocortical column looks like.

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.