This is the connectome of the worm C. elegans.

The connectome is where nature meets nurture.

And to find the connectomes of brains more like our own, we need more sophisticated technologies, that are automated, that will speed up the process of finding connectomes.

Neural activity is its water, and the connectome is its bed.

Suppose our technologies for finding connectomes actually work.

The question is has that damage erased the connectome?

Finding that worm connectome took over a dozen years of tedious labor.

And as I told you just now, neural activity can change the connectome.

On the other hand, if the connectome is still intact, we cannot ridicule the claims of cryonics so easily.

You know, you guys are so great, you don't even know what a connectome is, and you're willing to play along with me.

Your connectome is far more complex than this because your brain contains 100 billion neurons and 10,000 times as many connections.

So imagine a grid, like the one I'm showing you right now, and now imagine, within that grid, that two dimensional sheet, imagine neurons.

Nervousness

The nerve!

Well it turns out it's these neuromodulators, just like the neuromodulators in that little tiny ganglion in the crabs.

Your connectome is far more complex than this because your brain contains 100 billion neurons and 10,000 times as many connections.

I edited out the last bit when I asked, Where is the neuron? and she says, The neuron?

I do not know, but I hope that I will live to see that day, because finding an entire human connectome is one of the greatest technological challenges of all time.

Post synaptic neuron.

The absolute nerve!

And for that, we use the neural network, which we based on that part of the nervous system that we have in our spine that controls walking in humans.

and she says, The neuron? The neuron, and then she looked and did this.

Now the next natural question is, what happens at the neuron to neuron junctions?

So just think of this you have a grid of neurons, and now you have a plane mechanical change in the position of the grid, and you get a warping of your mental experience.

And this is what's referred to as neuroplasticity.

He's just neurotic.

These meetings led to the formation of the International Society for Neurochemistry and the American Society for Neurochemistry.

And those are the neural structures.

Let's look at neurons.

To empathize with my anger and grief

They are called neurons.

This is the post synaptic neuron.

I've always been this neurotic mess.

Sebastian Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our connectome, and it's as individual as our genome and understanding it could open a new way to understand our brains and our minds.

And in this slide you see the neurons and the synapses of the brain don't form.

We call this the human connectome, and you can think about the connectome sort of as the wiring diagram of the brain.

How does the signal go from one neuron's axon to the next neuron's dendrite?

In order to find connectomes, we have to see all the neurons at the same time.

You heard about neuromodulators earlier.

Brains only detect nerve impulses.

I am my connectome.

I am my connectome?

This is inside the first neuron.

Network management using the NetworkManager daemon, version 0.7

Here's another kind of network a food web.