The China Brain Project is a 15-year project, approved by the Chinese
National People's Congress
The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (NPC; ), or simply the National People's Congress, is constitutionally the supreme state authority and the national legislature of the People's Republic of China.
With 2,9 ...
in March 2016 as part of the 13th
Five-Year Plan (2016–2020); it is one of four pilot programs of the Innovation of Science and Technology Forward 2030 program, targeted at research into the neural basis of
cognitive function
Cognitive skills, also called cognitive functions, cognitive abilities or cognitive capacities, are brain-based skills which are needed in acquisition of knowledge, manipulation of information and reasoning. They have more to do with the mechanisms ...
.
Additional goals include improving diagnosis and prevention of brain diseases and driving information technology and artificial intelligence projects that are inspired by the brain.
The China Brain Project prioritizes brain-inspired AI over other approaches. The Project is addressing legal, ethical, and social issues related to brain emulation (
neuroethics
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) according to international standards and
Chinese values
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. The Project is supported by the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...
' (CAS) Centre for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence, a consortium of laboratories at over twenty CAS institutes and universities,
and the Chinese Institute for Brain Research, launched in March 2018.
See also
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Artificial brain
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BRAIN Initiative
The White House BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) is a collaborative, public-private research initiative announced by the Obama administration on April 2, 2013, with the goal of supporting the devel ...
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Brain/MINDS
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Human Brain Project
The Human Brain Project (HBP) is a large ten-year scientific research project, based on exascale supercomputers, that aims to build a collaborative ICT-based scientific research infrastructure to allow researchers across Europe to advance knowl ...
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Noogenesis
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References
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research in China
Neuroscience projects
2016 establishments in China
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