Can computers think like brains of living things?

• I was sitting before my PC as usual doing my routine blogging work and was wondering at the way the computer listens to our commands and make our life easier. At the same time my mind wandered to think as to whether the computer can also think like other living creatures. After sometime I concluded to myself that the computer can never be equated to a living thing as it can only perform our commands but surely will not be able to think like living things.
• But to my surprise I discovered that the scientists at IBM Corp have stimulated a cat's cerebral cortex the thinking part of the brain rising a massive super computer. The computer has 147,456 processors.
• This computer has 144 terabytes of main memory-100,000 times more than your computer has.
• The latest stimulation which runs 100 times slower than an actual cat's brain is more about watching how thoughts are formed in the brain and how the roughly one billion neurons and ten trillion synapses in a cat's brain work together.
• A program was created to tell the supercomputer to behave how a brain is believed to behave. The computer was shown images of corporate logos and the scientists watched as different parts of the stimulated brain worked together.
  

Magnetic thinking cap to boost brain power

• The Magnetic thinking cap enhances the ability of the brain to learn. Scientists have found that stimulating the brain with magnets couls enhance a person's ability to learn.
• Scientists have found that when a magnetic pulse was applied to the premotor cortex, an area of the brain just behind the forehead, the ability of the brain got enhanced to learn and remember a task.
• According to researchers led by Dr Boyd at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, this technique could enhance intellectual capacity and help those with learning difficulties.
  
• For a study the ability of 30 volunteers to track an object on a computer screen with a red dot using a joy stick was tested. During the task the target would move randomly, then enter a programmed pattern and finally return moving randomly. The participants were not aware of the repeated sections and they beleived that the targets moved randomly. Some of the participants were given the magnetic stimulation and they shlwed better performance as compared to others in the group and that too in the repeated sections.
• According to Boyd this study demonstrated that magnetic stimulation enhanced learning ability and eventually leading to a magnetic thinking cap.