Sebastian Seung
Auteur van Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
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The book is helpful even if you disagree with the main hypothesis, because it covers historical approaches to understanding the brain and their shortcomings. Starting from phrenology in the 18th century, and moving forward to the discovery of neurons and attempts at classifying areas of the brain. Finally, Seung explains one of the current frontiers: the challenge of mapping a brain neuron by neuron and what it could mean for our understanding of the brain.
By the end of the book one feels convinced that many of our difficulties in understanding how the brain functions might lie simply in our current inability to observe the the physical connections and handle the large amount of image data generated fast enough.… (meer)