Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome

http://www.ted.com Sebastian Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our "connectome," and it's as individual as our genome -- and understanding it could open a new way to understand our brains and our minds.

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[McBagginz]

He sounds like Morpheus from the Matrix! lol. Love It!

[youtubing27]

I love whimsical metaphores that make sense.

[justgivemethetruth]

This guy's book "Connectome" is really good, elaborates on the ideas presented here. What a great gift to the world to write a book that begins to explain the amazing complexity and wonder of the human brain, and all of our promise and failings as well. I am halfway through the book and I agree with Dan Levitin's review of Seung's book that it is the best science book I have read.

[Brandon02121997]

Once upon a time The Genome Project was just a dream.

Charting the 28 billion parsec Observable Universe is nearly complete.

Soon the Dark Matter particle will be identified and Dark Energy understood.

Mapping the Connectome –No Problem; Go for it!

[mamabari07]

JUNK.... (and yes, I have a PhD in Neuroscience) !! Wake up and make yourself useful. Science is not about gathering junk data all your life..

[TheZorion]

hope its not gonna used to make our world saver, better , deleting individualy this can be a big weapon if we look at the negavive aspects

[sulljoh1]

Learning and thinking better be changing your connectome, or else what is it doing?

[abcd12345]

@sethwright oh my goodness ;)

[abcd12345]

this has always been a dream for decades, to solve it, and has even been a subject/topic of several movies including, the one i distinctly remember, deep blue sea :)

[kytosht]

@joshuavogelstein what does "alg-sourcing" mean? thanks.

[sethwright]

Sebastian Seung is hot as hell - too bad he's straight