Blue Brain: Computer simulation of the entire human brain

It will be interesting to see if they can model a function AI on this. If it can perform all the functions of the human brain I have no reason to doubt that it might work.

AI and computers developing awareness has always been a facinating subject to me. I have a general impression that the brain behaves more top down than bottum up. What I mean to say is that the senses seem to be constantly firing perturbations into an existing network that results in global changes in the network. Some parts of the brain are used more for some tasks, but even in those instances the other parts of the brain are working at a lower level at the same time. Computers don't work in the same way, they access one part of their memory at a time, so unless there is a fundamental change in the way computers functions, I don't see them achieving awareness.