Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
Categories: Science & Math
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are (2012) is a book by neuroscientist Sebastian Seung. Seung argues that identity and memory reside in the connectome, the pattern of connections between neurons. He describes efforts to map those connections and considers what a completed connectome would mean for medicine, identity and the idea of a continuous self that survives from day to day.
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- Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is called "Connectome," and its by MIT professor Sebastian Seung. The author's fascinating thesis is that we are who we are because of how our brains are wired. That the pattern of connections between our brain's neurons is what forms our identities. It's really interesting stuff, and it's very well written.”