What is on Your Mind?

Excellent talk by Sebastian Seung:



I am my connectome

Excellent indeed. There was one thing that puzzled me, from the metaphore of the bed of the stream, he leaped to "the stream of consciousness". I felt that was a bit of a shortcut; what about subconsciousness?

It also left me wondering: Are we more than our connectome?

I think until we fully understand the connectome, it is really pointless to speculate "if we are more or less"; because we would be speculating against an unproven hypothesis.

Also, I thought the "lab culture" way they showed of mapping the connectome is the wrong approach. Better to map with some kind of high precision "signal tracer" that can measure the connectome based on transmission pathways.

I don't think the "slice and map" method, like used in tissue analysis, is very useful.