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Date posted: 14/03/2008

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne computational neuroscientists hope to model a complete rat brain within two years on their IBM Blue Brain supercomputer and download it into a robotic rat to develop like a real rat--one with a "mind of its own."

They also want to simulate what that brain experiences, and generate a movie of its reality rooted in the details of its brain.

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