Year: 2022

MEANINGLESS NEGATIVITY. It has often been said that all this nonsense about brain uploading is not possible until we understand the human brain. But there are innumerable examples of capturing phenomena without any clue of how, and the brain-to-brain experiments are stellar examples. Not a clue how this works, no mechanism under consideration or test. View in LinkedIn

IMMENSE CHALLENGE BY THE NUMBERS. "The human brain, it is often said, is the most complex object in the known universe. Counting all the connections among its roughly 90 billion neurons, at the rate of one each second, would take about 3 million years – and just counting these connections says nothing about their intricate patterns of connectivity." (And see where this great machine has got humanity!) https://lnkd.in/dN2munW View in LinkedIn

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BRAIN WIRING. "Characterizing the detailed point-to-point connectivity of the brain is increasingly recognized as a key objective for neuroscience. Many even think that without knowing the ‘connectome’ – the brain’s wiring diagram – we will never understand how its electrochemical alchemy gives rise to our thoughts, actions, perceptions, beliefs, and ultimately to our consciousness." https://lnkd.in/dN2munW View in LinkedIn

"THE HUMAN CONNECTOME PROJECT consortium led by Washington University, University of Minnesota, and Oxford University is undertaking a systematic effort to map macroscopic human brain circuits and their relationship to behavior in a large population of healthy adults." https://lnkd.in/ddAE8pR View in LinkedIn

NOVEL COMPILATION. "The Human Connectome Project aims to provide an unparalleled compilation of neural data, an interface to graphically navigate this data and the opportunity to achieve never before realized conclusions about the living human brain." https://lnkd.in/d2iV5Vr View in LinkedIn

IMAGES of the brain connections by the Human Connectome Project. Exquisite, stunning images. The start of new things to come. https://lnkd.in/drXsEKF View in LinkedIn

CONNECTOME PROJECT. "On the behavioral front, our objective is to capture a large amount of information about each subject across many behavioral domains, especially for measures that have the potential to covary in interesting ways (across subjects) with brain connectivity and function." https://lnkd.in/ddAE8pR View in LinkedIn

CONNECTOME PROJECT. "A secondary objective is to use standardized behavioral tests as much as is feasible, to increase the prospects that findings based on the HCP data can in the future be related to other large-scale projects comparing brain and behavior." https://lnkd.in/ddAE8pR View in LinkedIn

"GENETIC ANALYSES will be based on DNA extracted from blood samples acquired at the time of each subject’s visit. Genotyping will be carried out in the final year of the project, for reasons of consistency (using a single platform), and also to obtain the greatest amount of data, given anticipated declines in price per sample." (CONNECTOME project). https://lnkd.in/ddAE8pR View in LinkedIn