Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome
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- čas přidán 27. 09. 2010
- www.ted.com 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.
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this guy's public speaking skills are unprecedented
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How precisely is this guys speaking ability in any way related to the long list of nasty folks you listed there... should we also include Winston Churchill, Boadicea, Cicero, Shakespeare, Feynann, Sagan, Mark Twain? erm... etc. etc... and any number of other people that spoke publicly but managed not to use it to cause mischief?
All of those people including this guy, also wear shoes... So did Adolf Hitler... Not really sure I see any correlation though? Do you? are shoe wearers potential megalomaniacs? Should we be wary of shoe manufacturers?
Again you really do have to spend some time on YT to realise the truly abysmal ability of people to use incredibly bad rationale, logic and reason to form ideas!
Anders Brevik & Sebastian Seung? Really? You see a correlation there?
Steve Jobs + Bruce Lee =
What makes you say that?? I didnt find him particularly eloquent or engaging..Did most people?
@@goddesssolaria4509 lol wow, I bet your fun at parties!
Smart remarks aside... I really respect this guys work and his optimistic drive.
He's actually a very good lecturer. Thank you Dr.Seung!
those animations must've taken ages to make, my deepest respect for that.
Wow.... what a great speaker! Even a non-expert like myself could understand what he's trying to say.
Absolutely the most interesting and Connectome changing lecture i heard. Zen people can only feel this, but Sebastain Seung really makes a beautiful connection between Zen and Pure Cultivating Science!!!
This guy's book "Connectome" is really good, elaborates on the ideas presented here. What a great gift to the world to write a book that begins to explain the amazing complexity and wonder of the human brain, and all of our promise and failings as well. I am halfway through the book and I agree with Dan Levitin's review of Seung's book that it is the best science book I have read.
Dr Seung is one of the most fluent and articulate, imaginative and inspiring science speakers I've seen since Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman. Fascinating ideas too!
Dr. Seung is the best definition of an intelligent man: a leading scientist who is able to address complex topics such as neuroscience, philosophy and technology in a clear, eloquent and humorous way. If only there were more people like him...
Bingo. I am so glad that someone got this point. Understanding what this guys is talking about translates to empathy, for oneself and for the rest of the human population.
Great talk! The visual representations were fantastic, very helpful!
This was excellent. He's very humble and puts science into easier terms. Reminds me of Michio Kaku.
Fantastic presentation. Thank you for sharing it.
I love well spoken individuals.
i was not liking this cideo and wondering the point for about 16 minutes... now i completely agree that this is important and that TED truly is back
Amazingly clear presentation of a seriously difficult and challenging science!
Muy interesante y con planteamientos realmente sorprendentes y motivadores.
Excellent talk...Great speaker, I'm going to learn more about the connectome because it really connects with home.
Definately an excellent and interesting lecture. More please.
Best TED talk by far!
This is a GREAT lecture! Must see!!
Very, very thank's from Brazil!
I love whimsical metaphores that make sense.
Genius speaker, and one of the best TED videos.
What a beautiful talk !
What a nice choreographed talk!
Well, I'm a 30 year old from Texas. It's always so amazing to make deep connections with someone on the other side of the world, someone that you will likely physically meet.
Here's to hoping that our society continues to move further towards becoming a more empathic civilization. By the way, speaking of that phrase, if you haven't watched "Jeremy Rifkin: The Empathic Civilization / Ross Institute Summer Academy 2010", I think you'd really like it.
such a SCIENTIFIC and FUN talk that leaves so much hope :D
Great TED speech, like in the old days of TED.
I'm here 14 years later :D this was so fascinating! 🧠
Excellent talk.
thats the same the 3d slicing technique that termite researchers used to map a termite mound.
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very interesting talk with a great speaker.
Truly enlightening.
amazing hypothesis!
"I am my connectone" means that consciouness (our spirit for the religious) resides in the neurons, their connections, and brain activity. Super deep.
Great presenter, fascinating topic, even some humor. /cheer
sebastian: super great talk! we are working hard to support obtaining connectomes from experiments. in particular, the Open Connectome Project is now hosting a 12TB connectome from Bock et al (2011), with the ability to view/zoom/annotate/download. soon, an API will be released to facilitate uploading annotations, to start the process of alg-sourcing the image processing of these data. very exciting times!!!
One of the best...
this video changed my life
How many I ask? :)
great talk!
Nice TED giving good stuff again :)
my connectome is changing as I watch this video ... oh my!!!
that's exactly what I thought of, too :D realising my connectome is changing *IN* my connectome! :3
This is a cool guy, would have loved him as my professor in one or two classes.
@joshuavogelstein what does "alg-sourcing" mean? thanks.
I love TED for this
superbe perspective des progres à faire et de leur importance !
more talks like this!
I LOVE IT!
@BigMTBrain well put. "We" are the pure Witness of that device.
This guy is awesome!
@AmusingYeti if you scuba dive, you´ll need a watch to know how long will your oxigen tank last under water. that´s why you need a watch that can hold such intense pressure.
Awesome...
I like how TED will upload HD videos to Zune but not youtube T_T
I am more than my jeans!
Insightful
Do we have this updated?
This guy is awesome.
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Very interesting..
TED is back
Maybe it's the passion and love that he has for what he does that's misconceived for cockiness by some. ;) Very interesting talk!
now we should call 2010 is 10 years ago,,, what a fast ,,, time flies
Very interesting talk, very interesting scientist.
this has always been a dream for decades, to solve it, and has even been a subject/topic of several movies including, the one i distinctly remember, deep blue sea :)
Absolutely brilliant TED talk! Makes me want to take up neuroscience! Why can't they have a geologist on TED? =(
Did you take it up? :)
"I am a robot vehicle for my DNA!!!" -- Slackware MOTD
Four years hence:
I tested NetworKit [1] on the dataset Test.fiber.big from [2], a human connectome with 46 million edges. It's interesting to see that it is a fairly typical complex network. Features include a power-law degree distribution with an exponent of 1.6, a giant connected component, high degree assortativity, high clustering, and a distinctive modular structure with about 800 communities. A complete profile is in the attachment.
[1]: parco.iti.kit.edu/software/networkit.shtml
[2]: mrbrain.cs.jhu.edu/disa/download/
from:
www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_current_algorithmic_challenges_in_connectome_analysis
But really, this is a really awesome interesting talk for once.
Amazing
at last a good TED lecture
Connect with memetics, the self, Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett.
Wonderful talk!
@qigong1001 depends on how they read the connections.
The guy says that connectomes may be acting like transistors. but connectomes can change their connection bit/line so this is lot different type of memory mechanism then computer. its like a cpu that can change its architecrure or coding mechanism depending data on software ... so that way one written program may mean totally different thing to some other processing unit ;P
if the achievement of the connectome happens after or as a byproduct of the technological singularity , then as same as a century ago no one could dream of the idea of the internet , no one can fathom what is really ahead of us .
@mcgrawtim123 the computer doesn't know how we think, we interpret the info that the computer give us from us putting in certain inputs...like an automatic card shuffler. we put the cards in and it puts it back out differently, without knowing what the cards are
14:27 - What theory is this? I would like to read the original notes, papers, books...? Or good references about it. PS: For scientific/didatic purposes.
I suspect he's referring to Santiago Ramón y Cajal
@mahlerdude1 - "what a histrionic deliver". Most Ted talks that I've seen are. This, in my opinion, is one of the better ones, not strictly content wise, but also by delivery. Sometimes it takes this kind of pre-fab emotional delivery to sell an idea. I think he did a great job... on this one. I've seen one of his earlier talks and it was HORRIBLE. He is much improved.
@Compact3 It is like a page and a half of single spaced typing, I think, so that would be hard...
I feel like this is chapter 2 in my psychology class
cool!
@dtekben1 No, I am not going to write my resume here.. There is a reason why this is not taken seriously - scientists have very painstakingly studied nervous system structure and connections over centuries (which is great), the problem of this approach is connections are NOT static, they are dynamic, changing in every 'ms' (therefore can not be mapped), it is like sequencing genome (you can sequence DNA which is static, but you can not study/compare proteome between cells which is more dynamic..
He's a great presenter, interesting guy
1st, I have to concur with mfunke that it's about time we get back to science at TED. Science, math, engineer
Interesting.
@kmetze Although I agree with the fact that the wristwatch isn't really the popular kid in school anymore, due to phones and all they have to offer, I think they're still worth wearing.
Timewise, swiftly glancing at your wrist > taking your phone out of your pocket/bag etc. Plus, they can look quite good as an accessory, but that's just me. :]
Yes the connections change all the time but right now we don't even have a snapshot of them at any given time, thats why its important to map it. Otherwise we will never understand how the brain actually works. It would be like quantum physcist just giving up when they found out you can't predict the location of a particle...
My jeans are Wrangler's and they perfectly contour to my ass = o
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A TEDTALK that isn´t about some new-age idea, gimmick or someone trying to sell something? I can´t believe it...in a GOOD way. This is what TEDTALKS used to be!
Perhaps the best discription of the mind yet and without some metaphysical mumbo jumbo or vital force holding things together.
I always knew those in Cryonics were on to something. With Moore's law the conclusion of his test will play out sooner then most people expect. See Ray kurzweil and Project blue brain.
Interesting, that 'spell' at the beginning.
Now it’s ten years later.
@iceman2792
total recall anyone ...?
awesome speaker. I am going to freeze my brain when i die
Yeah, via this knowledge of human's connectom, I think, someone can help us improve our knowledge, because we can't receive their knowledge directly, and therefore they can't deliver it to us directly
HOMER SIMPSON: What is mind? - No matter. What is matter? - Never mind.
I have created a psychological theory that relates very much to connections in the brain -- anybody know if and how I could get a hold of him?
Vtec just kicked in yo!
i am a combination of my value system and my accumilated Character (a selected collection of habbits of character traits) where each component of my value system and each individual character trait vibrates at its unique frequency... the brain that is in this body has its own charactristics that doesnt relate to who i really am ... so only a portion of my totality is expressed in this tiny physical brain and in this human physical body
@0RaysAccount0 contact TED, I'm sure you can get some info
The conectome you are talking about is like taking a picture of niagara falls. Even if you take a high-res pic of it, the picture doesn't become the falls. In your head you've conjured up an idea that simply by being able to image something gives you ability to play god.
But imaging the neurons can tell us pathways, which in turn, can give us access to use those neuronal pathways.
I know it's sick but these TED viseos have been so heartwarming for me over the years they're almost romantic....
But it's so DEFLATING getting back to reality after all the "we should/could do this".
Let's just elect Ray Kurzweil a leader for life and let's get pushing towards singularity!