Want to Upload Your Brain? Science Fiction Comes to Life

Want to Upload Your Brain? Science Fiction Comes to Life

Want to Upload Your Brain? Science Fiction Comes to Lifebr Commonwealth Club - SF Club Officebr MIT professor Sebastian Seung has found what he calls the nexus of nature and nurture: the "Connectome", or the network of connections between neurons in the human brain. He will take you inside his ambitious quest to model the Connectome, which, if successful, would uncover the basis of personality, intelligence, memory and disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.McGill University Professor of Psychology and Neurosciences Daniel Levitin wrote in The Wall Street Journal that Connectome is "the best lay book on brain science I've ever read.


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