According to Henry Markram, our brains are essentially massive super-clusters of small processors, so closely packed that the surface contorts and folds in order to fit more and more. Consisting of over 100,000,000,000,000 synapses, or contact points within the brain (literally contact points), it is an extraordinarily complex organ. Supercomputers at this moment are being used to model the brain in order to understand how it works, and why. These computers and their models will most likely be able to help us understand the brain and disorders, perhaps even developing cures for them in the near future.
My question is, can these artificial brains experience and understand emotion? That is one of mankind's greatest abilities, the ability to use and understand complex emotions.
http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.html
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