People like Sebastian Seung inspire me. Seung is a leader in the new field of “connectomics,” currently the hottest space in neuroscience, which studies, in once-impossible detail, the wiring of the brain.
In the brain, neurons are connected into a complex network. Sebastian Seung and his lab at MIT are inventing technologies for identifying and describing the “connectome,” the totality of connections between the brain’s neurons — think of it as the wiring diagram of the brain. This could eventually revolutionize the way we understand our brains and our minds…
