Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome

[@danieldaniel987]

this guy's public speaking skills are unprecedented

[@fernandolk4536]

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[@goddesssolaria4509]

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?

[@davethedm]

Steve Jobs + Bruce Lee =

[@leif1075]

What makes you say that?? I didnt find him particularly eloquent or engaging..Did most people?

[@Malepresentingtimelord]

@@goddesssolaria4509 lol wow, I bet your fun at parties!

[@briansmobile1]

Smart remarks aside... I really respect this guys work and his optimistic drive.

[@borninvietnam]

He's actually a very good lecturer. Thank you Dr.Seung!

[@allenamenbesetzt]

those animations must've taken ages to make, my deepest respect for that.

[@Kyunghoony]

Wow.... what a great speaker! Even a non-expert like myself could understand what he's trying to say.

[@vinceotti]

this video changed my life

[@RockoryonOrion]

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!!!

[@canadianeyes]

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...

[@justgivemethetruth]

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.

[@rbc13183]

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.

[@MrCounsel]

"I am my connectone" means that consciouness (our spirit for the religious) resides in the neurons, their connections, and brain activity. Super deep.

[@astrophonix]

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!

[@emanuelamonteiromagnani7968]

Que palestra incrível! Brasil. 17/09/2024

[@rbc13183]

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.

[@carousel1130]

This was excellent. He's very humble and puts science into easier terms. Reminds me of Michio Kaku.

[@profjaykay]

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

[@youtubing27]

I love whimsical metaphores that make sense.

[@holdmybeer]

thats the same the 3d slicing technique that termite researchers used to map a termite mound. . . very interesting talk with a great speaker.

[@REALDONALD_USA]

i didn't except a quality lecture on neuroscience

[@mamabari07]

@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..

[@vyotiainen]

Amazingly clear presentation of a seriously difficult and challenging science!

[@papasitoman]

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!

[@moyga]

Great talk! The visual representations were fantastic, very helpful!

[@AaaaghJOE]

Best TED talk by far!

[@mutabazimichael8404]

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 .

[@nic12344]

I am more than my jeans!

[@rast123456789]

I feel like this is chapter 2 in my psychology class

[@KrustyKlown]

my connectome is changing as I watch this video ... oh my!!!

[@jovianadesiqueiralopescunh2134]

Excelente contribuição!

[@heiroPhantom]

I love well spoken individuals.

[@8legsFreak]

Genius speaker, and one of the best TED videos.

[@geciliao7508]

Very, very thank's from Brazil!

[@curiositydefined]

Excellent talk...Great speaker, I'm going to learn more about the connectome because it really connects with home.

[@irebelx]

Fantastic presentation. Thank you for sharing it.

[@Truthiness231]

1st, I have to concur with mfunke that it's about time we get back to science at TED. Science, math, engineer

[@conmana10]

I like how TED will upload HD videos to Zune but not youtube T_T

[@otivaeey]

What a nice choreographed talk!

[@leerodgers3005]

"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

[@hilariofreire]

@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.

[@joshuavogelstein]

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!!!

[@Sanngot]

Absolutely brilliant TED talk! Makes me want to take up neuroscience! Why can't they have a geologist on TED? =(

[@khatack]

Definately an excellent and interesting lecture. More please.

[@cityplanconsultores2188]

amazing hypothesis!

[@MrBranboom]

Great presenter, fascinating topic, even some humor. /cheer

[@ridingboy]

Great TED speech, like in the old days of TED.

[@katianarodrigues9425]

Maravilhosa explanação.

[@aneelmattu]

@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

[@joelmalinsdossantos8867]

Muito grata !!!🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@Rusvi1]

HOMER SIMPSON: What is mind? - No matter. What is matter? - Never mind.

[@TaloomHwang]

This is a GREAT lecture! Must see!!

[@godprobablyexists7461]

Excellent talk.

[@sdh4967]

now we should call 2010 is 10 years ago,,, what a fast ,,, time flies

[@ChocolateTeddybar]

Truly enlightening.

[@nickjunes]

You cannot discount that a human has native input of physics from the universe without translation through a simulated environment. This connection means we have a niche in the Universe. A derivative digital representation is just a tool, which can be interpreted to 'do' certain things. Whatever is doing the interpreting is the living entity. No one is a copy of anything. We have a location in the universe that is receiving infinite input. Copying aspects of these billions of particles is not recreating those billions of particles or what they are doing being inseparable from the universe itself. No one is a connectome as much as no one is a book or some other derivative description.

[@goddesssolaria4509]

wouldn't the 'derivative digital representation' also be 'in the universe' and oddly enough you realise that your 'senses' are in fact the tools you use to take information from the universe. Your brain then translates that input. So point of fact whatever you think the universe is? Well its limited by the really bad information you get through those sense and the really bad interpretation completed by the meat between your ears. Its a biological system, but without any senses or interpretation you wouldn't be conscious, you'd never know you are you! Just like a month old baby you would not be aware of your own existence. What I find most interesting about KZbin is the willingness of those that have no knowledge, to taka look at someone that has many times their knowledge and understanding, then claim they are 'all wrong' and express that large hole of understanding as if it were factual. Nobody receives 'infinite' anything. Infinity is the one thing this universe doesn't have as a property. Not even time is infinite... But, At least, at the very least, now you have a little more information, you now know that infinity is an abstract concept and not reflected by the process we call universe. Plus you can go check up on that before insisting its not the case.

[@heiroPhantom]

Goddess Solaria 8:45 He speaks about infinity. He refers to awesome complexity of the brain as 'well being infinite.' I'm pretty sure it's this same infinity the speaker and the commenter are referring to.

[@nyclear]

@BigMTBrain well put. "We" are the pure Witness of that device.

[@samuelebaresi5071]

Da guardare entro Martedì ragazzi

[@SuperVerdict]

TED is back

[@Roriniho]

One of the best...

[@drorjs]

this guy should host a science show on TV like carl sagen(R.I.P).

[@Freigeist20789]

I love TED for this

[@auroraPrincess2010]

What a beautiful talk !

[@322501759]

Muy interesante y con planteamientos realmente sorprendentes y motivadores.

[@kszpirak]

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.

[@aidanjameson2521]

But imaging the neurons can tell us pathways, which in turn, can give us access to use those neuronal pathways.

[@paulmilano4953]

the whole point of technology for me at least, is to be one with it this we become immortal. to me death is so unnecessary. everyone should live forever. we have the whole universe to mine. I truly believe that the universe is all ours for the taking. I would love to be immortal and one day and begin an eternal voyage into the depths of the universe

[@quintonmiller8266]

Lol. You are to evil, all should die and will. Your god like ego is why man kind will be destroyed.

[@colematthews7535]

@@quintonmiller8266 I have to agree. This is dangerous. Conscious humans know they die every morning.

[@benp9793]

What a naive worldview. Immortality will be forever unobtainable. Objectively speaking, you are insignificant and worth no more than an ant or a bird. The universe does not belong to us- we are a part of it. What about the other lifeforms living on planets far from our own? Do we own them as well?

[@benp9793]

Plus- we will never be able to reach distant stars or other planets outside our solar system; nothing physical could ever travel that fast. Accept the fact that we are meant to live on earth in the specific land we have adapted to. It isn't that bad..

[@arhabersham]

such a SCIENTIFIC and FUN talk that leaves so much hope :D

[@momentary_]

@Zoiros85 Well, a connectome isn't the neural network nor the brain, but the connections in our brain. His theory is that you are not your brain nor your neural network, but the connections within.

[@vivap9679]

Do we have this updated?

[@ahmetmutlu348]

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

[@BigMTBrain]

@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.

[@attalyafelix8080]

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.

[@paulwarren3106]

I suspect he's referring to Santiago Ramón y Cajal

[@TheTrainstation]

This guy is awesome!

[@AlenMecan]

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!

[@CristinaNeedsaHug]

@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. :]

[@ramblinevilmushroom]

more talks like this!

[@P1ranh4]

This is a cool guy, would have loved him as my professor in one or two classes.

[@chiropra1]

Connect with memetics, the self, Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett. Wonderful talk!

[@briansmobile1]

My jeans are Wrangler's and they perfectly contour to my ass = o

[@Riaz125]

This guy is awesome.

[@Verokomo]

Maybe it's the passion and love that he has for what he does that's misconceived for cockiness by some. ;) Very interesting talk!

[@SaMusz73]

superbe perspective des progres à faire et de leur importance !

[@kytosht]

@joshuavogelstein what does "alg-sourcing" mean? thanks.

[@gens12334]

@icnithian Brain is just a tool for "us" to be in this body and control it, a processor. Do not underestimate the power of consciousness, it is limitless...

[@oneiam]

The carved riverbed is the result of the stream of consciousness. The stream does not come out of the bed. In this case, the river bed and all its directions and connections are the result of motion in consciousness. I am not my connectome. I AM.

[@ItsJakeTheBrake]

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...

[@kyryll]

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

[@roymarshall_]

So in other words, this research is essentially the beginning of possible mind reading. As in, extremely advanced technology, that could unscramble thoughts and read connectomes quickly, you could read a human mind.

[@hilariofreire]

@qigong1001 depends on how they read the connections.

[@momentary_]

@Zoiros85 Nah, neural networks are just a type of structure. It doesn't refer to any specific structure. That's the difference between a connectome and the network that comprises it. The connectome is the specific configuration of the network and not the concept of a network. I guess you'd have to understand that not everyone's neural network is identical to understand the significance of a connectome.

[@0RaysAccount0]

@Compact3 It is like a page and a half of single spaced typing, I think, so that would be hard...

[@eplazai]

Who's watching on 2019?

[@coachivan638]

2021. 😄

[@amysterling]

great talk!

[@oneiam]

@Hypnotron2006 What you're really saying is subtle differences in consciousness shape the beds of twins to be different. Trying to define your being through physics is a waste of time. "The All is Mind; The Universe is Mental." Keep looking closer and closer, until it all disappears.

[@joannot6706]

Who else is here after his team's recent breakthrough?

[@zhrusalem]

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

[@piggylove5]

Insightful

[@thejlx]

Nice TED giving good stuff again :)

[@zydomason]

at last a good TED lecture

[@ddnguyen278]

@joelito101 Conectomes change, its very possible that if you can't remember it now then the memories are gone. That doesn't prevent the brain from making up memories on the fly to fill in the blanks. Maybe humans really don't remember alot and we just make up memories on the fly, who knows.

[@BeyondWrittenWords]

He's a great presenter, interesting guy

[@mauriliojarduli5103]

Awesome...