Connectome: How the brain's wiring makes us who we are

Rising star in the field of neuroscience Sebastian Seung argues that our identity lies not in our genes but in the connections between our brain cells -- and he describes the monumental task of mapping these "connectomes", neuron by neuron, synapse by synapse.

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[kchingk]

i like this guy. good attitude. we need more people in the world like him

[tonyfalca]

Sebastian Seung Goes to White Castle

[MyLittleMagneton]

Kind of weird how the speach is in the sewers

[87mrks]

can't we use jail inmates for this task?

in the US there's 2 millions of them.

instead of stabbing each other in the brain with the shaft of a brush, they can turn the brush around and color it.

[jeaniebaby001]

makes sense. human genome is mapped.  time for brain tissue. maybe a similar international cooperative process can be involved.

[JubeX7]

Deli-slices of brain - mmmmm

[BabyGirlxBina]

Sounds like an interesting game!!

[Kayenne54]

So...are the terms "mind" and "brain" interchangeable? I wouldn't have thought so. Not after having studied NDE's for the last 20 years or so...and then there's the apocryphal reports of people with parts of their brain missing, for whatever reason, who still function perfectly normally...???

[josephkiim]

the human connectome has to rewire to make this project go faster

[Haamza Cris]

Am I The Only one who's Here For Muse ? <3

[itsdevi42]

and this^ is why i study cognitive/brain sciences!