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Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating.

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

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.

We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.