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=== Brain simulation ===
{{Main|Brain simulation}}

Ongoing work in the field of brain simulation includes partial and whole simulations of some animals.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> For example, the ''C. elegans'' roundworm,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Niebur |first1=E. |last2=Erdös |first2=P. |date=November 1993 |title=Theory of the locomotion of nematodes: control of the somatic motor neurons by interneurons |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8260760 |journal=Mathematical Biosciences |volume=118 |issue=1 |pages=51–82 |doi=10.1016/0025-5564(93)90033-7 |issn=0025-5564 |pmid=8260760}}</ref> ''Drosophila'' fruit fly,<ref>{{Cite book |date=2010 |title=The 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5596513 |journal=IEEE|doi=10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596513 |last1=Arena |first1=Paolo |last2=Patane |first2=Luca |last3=Termini |first3=Pietro Savio |chapter=An insect brain computational model inspired by Drosophila melanogaster: Simulation results |pages=1–8 |isbn=978-1-4244-6916-1 }}</ref> and mouse<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-04-27 |title=Mouse brain simulated on computer |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6600965.stm |access-date=2024-05-10 |work=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> have all been simulated to various degrees.

The [[Blue Brain Project]], initiated by the Brain and Mind Institute of the ''[[École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne]]'' in Switzerland, is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering mammalian brain circuitry, in order to accelerate experimental research on the brain.<ref>{{cite web |date=19 May 2015 |title=Bluebrain - EPFL |url=http://bluebrainproject.epfl.ch/FAQs.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060114070312/http://bluebrainproject.epfl.ch/FAQs.htm |archive-date=2006-01-14 |work=EPFL |quote=Once this replica is built, we will be able to do experiments that normally take us years or are prohibitively expensive or too difficult to perform. This will greatly accelerate the pace of research.}}</ref> In 2009, after a successful simulation of part of a rat brain, the director [[Henry Markram]] claimed that "A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years".<ref>{{cite news |last=Fildes |first=Jonathan |date=22 July 2009 |title=Artificial brain '10 years away' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8164060.stm |access-date= |website=BBC |publisher=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> In 2013, Markram became the director of the new decade-long [[Human Brain Project]]. But less than two years into it, the project was recognized to be mismanaged and its claims overblown, and Markram was asked to step down.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Epstein |first=Robert |date=18 May 2016 |title=The empty brain |url=https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer |access-date=2021-04-04 |website=Aeon |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Theil |first=Stefan |date=2015-10-01 |title=Why the human brain project went wrong and how to fix it |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-human-brain-project-went-wrong-and-how-to-fix-it/ |access-date=2021-04-04 |website=[[Scientific American]]}}</ref>