THE VIDEO SHELF · connectome
Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome
Sebastian Seung's TED talk introduces the connectome, the map of neural connections he argues defines each person. He explains how mapping it could change how we understand brains and minds.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN links it as an accessible visual explanation of the problem of mapping brain connectivity.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- connectome
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2015
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From the original HN conversations
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I really like this conception of brains working as internally competing and cooperating ferral units. I'll have to give it some more thought in the morning. I do have an entreaty for you though: In this era of high throughput computing, elegant biotechnology, and the …
SapphireSun on Hacker News · 2013-09
In Daniel Dennett: The Normal Well-Tempered MindWhat technology do we have right now to map the connections of the brain? Is there anything that currently exists with enough granularity to take a snapshot of our neurons and their connections? edit: thanks for the replies, did some research found this TED talk …
mentos on Hacker News · 2015-08
In Silicon Brain: 100,000 ARM cores [video]
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