Connectome how the brain's wiring makes us who we are pdf

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The brain before birth environmental health perspectives. A connectome is a map of the connections of the neurons in the brain, seung thinks that the variations within that framework is what makes us individuals. How the brains wiring makes us who we are, by sebastian seung, professor of computational neuroscience at mit. Connecome how he brains wiring makes us who we are speakers. Connectome sebastian seung haftad 9780241951873 bokus. It presents a daring scientific and technological vision for at last understanding what makes us who we are. There is reason to believe that we shape our own connectomes by the actions we take, even by the things we think. How the brains wiring makes us who we are seung, sebastian on.

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