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From 1993 to 2000 de Garis participated in a research project at ATR's Human Information Processing Research Laboratories ( ATR-HIP ) which aimed to create a billion neuron artificial brain by the year 2001.

The project was known as " cellular automata machine brain ," or " CAM-Brain.

" During this 8 year span he and his fellow researchers published a series of papers in which they discussed the use of genetic algorithms to evolve neural structures inside 3D cellular automata.

They argued that existing neural models had failed to produce intelligent behaviour because they were too small, and that in order to create " artificial brains " it was necessary to manually assemble tens of thousands of evolved neural modules together, with the billion neuron " CAM-Brain " requiring around 10 million modules ; this idea was rejected by Igor Aleksander, who said " The point is that these puzzles are not puzzles because our neural models are not large enough.