SEBASTIAN SEUNG

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 enthusias

In this bold and groundbreaking book, renowned neuroscientist Sebastian Seung reveals the secrets of the human brain. Sebastian Seung is at the forefront of a revolution in neuroscience. He believes that our identity lies not in our genes, but in the connections between our brain cells - our own particular wiring, or connectomes. Connectome tells the incredible story of how Seung and a dedicated group of researchers are mapping these connections, neuron by neuron, synapse by synapse. They hope to uncover the basis of personality, identity, intelligence and memory, and explain mental disorders such as autism, depression and schizophrenia. Seung also reveals how this new map of a human connectome might even enable us to upload our brains into a computer, making us effectively immortal.Connectome is a mind-bending adventure story, told with great passion and authority. It presents a daring scientific and technological vision for at last understanding what makes us who we are, both as individuals and as a species.

Sabemos que cada uno de nosotros es único, pero la ciencia lleva tiempo esforzándose por explicar dóndereside exactamente nuestra singularidad. ¿En nuestros genes? ¿En la estructura de nuestros cerebros? Nuestro genomapuede determinar rasgos fisicos como el color de los ojos y tambien aspectos de nuestra personalidad. Pero ¿hasta quepunto nuestras preferencias, nuestras debilidades y nuestras pasiones determinan quienes somos?