Plan of progressive development path to whole brain simulation

The problem of simulating an entire human brain is complex. It can be roughly divided into three parts:

• Design and construction of computing machinery sufficiently powerful to emulate an entire brain.
  
  
• Development of a model of the brain sufficiently detail such that its functional characteristics can be modelled.
  
  
• Development of techniques that can reproduce the particulars of the model above by scanning a (preferably living) human brain.

Benefits

This needs to be fleshed out will bullet points to justify the concept.

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