Our 100 Trillion Neural Connections: Mapping the Human Connectome

Who are we? Our genome comprises about 20,000 genes, about the same as a worm. Perhaps we are more than our genome.

This was a proposition MIT physicist and neuroscientist Sebastian Seung put to his audience in a 2010 TED Talk. Dr Seung is a leading proponent of the “connectome,” the sum of our neural connections, how the parts of our brain work together. 

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