Want to Upload Your Brain? Science Fiction Comes to Life
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2012/02/13/Sebastian_Seung_Connectome Professor of Computational Neuroscience at MIT Sebastian Seung discusses how the study of "connectomes", a comprehensive map of neural connections in the brain, can help turn science fiction into reality. Seung proposes that through the study of the connectome we can test w... Read more
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- -: Want to Upload Your Brain? Science Fiction Comes to Life
March 16, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2012/02/13/Sebastian_Seung_Connectome Professor of Computational Neuroscience at MIT Sebastian Seung discusses how the study of "connectomes", a comprehensive map of neural connections in the brain, can help turn science fiction into reality. Seung proposes that...
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