Open-source software for human brain simulation [closed]

Question

Is there any open-source software that is trying to implement and emulate the human brain (e.g. intelligence and feelings)?

Answer 1

Jeff Hawkins (the author of the book "On Intelligence") founded a company called Numenta. He came up with a theory on how a human brain works: the hierarchical temporal memory (HTM). Numenta has developed a software library called NuPIC (which is now open-source), which implements several algorithms related to this theory.

Answer 2

We don't know enough about how the brain works to attempt to do what you're saying in a principled way. (I.e., anything of the sort is "guessing wildly".) So this isn't really a software question--if we had any idea of what to write, perhaps it would be, but right now we don't.

However, you may be interested in the Blue Brain Project for a more biological approach, or in any of a number of machine learning projects like the DARPA Autonomous Vehicle Grand Challenge. A less useful but more conversational approach might be found in ALICE, but I wouldn't recommend that for anything useful.