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Connectome, by Sebastian Seung is 'One of the
most eagerly awaited scientific books of the year ...
intellectually exhilarating, beautifully written,
exquisitely precise yet still managing to be
inspirational' Irish Times
What really makes
us who we are? In this groundbreaking book, pioneering
neuroscientist Sebastian Seung shows that our identity
does not lie in our genes, but in the connections
between our brain cells - our own particular wiring, or
'connectomes'.
Everything about us - emotions,
thoughts, memories - is encoded in these tangled
patterns of neural connections, and now Seung and a
dedicated team are mapping them in order to uncover the
basis of personality, explain disorders such as autism
and depression, and even enable us to 'upload' our
brains. This book reveals the secrets of the brain,
showing how our connectome makes each of us uniquely
ourselves.
'With the first-person flavour of James
Watson's Double Helix, Connectome gives a sense
of the excitement on the cutting edge of neuroscience'
New Scientist
'Witty and exceptionally clear
... beautifully explained ... the best lay book on brain
science I've ever read' Wall Street
Journal
'Seung is about to
revolutionise brain science' The Times
'The
reader is swept along with his enthusiasm' The New
York Times
Sebastian Seung is Professor of
Computational Neuroscience at MIT and an Investigator of
the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He has made
important advances in robotics, neuroscience,
neuroeconomics, and statistical physics. His research
has been published in leading scientific journals, and
also featured in The New York Times,
Technology Review, and The
Economist.
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