Sebastian Seung is Professor of Computational Neuroscience at MIT and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He has made important advances in robotics, neuroscience, neuroeconomics, and statistical physics. His research has been published in leading scientific journals, and also featured in the New York Times, Technology Review, and the Economist.
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"The best lay book on brain science I've ever read."
-- Wall Street Journal by Daniel Levitin, Professor, McGill
University; author of This Is Your Brain on Music and The World in
Six Songs." This is complicated stuff, and it is a testament to Dr.
Seung's remarkable clarity of exposition that the reader is swept
along with his enthusiasm, as he moves from the basics of
neuroscience out to the farthest regions of the hypothetical,
sketching out a spectacularly illustrated giant map of the universe
of man."
-- New York Times"[A] bracing, mind-expanding report from
neuroscience's razor edge. Accessible, witty, [e]minently logical
and at times poetic, Connectome establishes Seung as an important
new researcher, philosopher and popularizer of brain science. It
puts him on par with cosmology's Brian Greene and the late Carl
Sagan."
-- Cleveland Plain Dealer"Seung argues intelligently and powerfully
that the self lies in the totality of the brain's wiring."
-- Nature by Christof Koch, Professor, California Institute of
Technology; Chief Scientific Officer, Allen Institute for Brain
Science; author of Quest for Consciousness and Consciousness:
Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist"With the first-person
flavour of James Watson's Double Helix--an account of how DNA's
structure was discovered--Connectome gives a sense of the
excitement on the cutting edge of neuroscience."
-- NewScientist by Terry Sejnowski, Professor and Director,
Computational Neurobiology Lab, Salk Institute; Investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Member, National Academy of
Sciences and National Academy of Engineering USA."An elegant primer
on what's known about how the brain is organized and how it grows,
wires its neurons, perceives its environment, modifies or repairs
itself, and stores information. Seung is a clear, lively writer who
chooses vivid examples."
-- Washington Post"Sebastian Seung scales the heights of
neuroscience and casts his brilliant eye around, describing the
landscape of its past and boldly envisioning a future when we may
understand our own brains and thus ourselves."
--Kenneth Blum, Executive Director, Center for Brain Science,
Harvard University"Sebastian Seung can do it all. He's widely
recognized as a superb physicist, a whiz with computers, and a
path-breaking neuroscientist. Connectome shows that he's also a
terrific writer, as inspiring as he is clear and good humored."
--Steven Strogatz, Cornell University, author of Sync: the Emerging
Science of Spontaneous Order"In Connectome, Sebastian Seung reminds
us that the human brain has contemplated itself for centuries. This
is an important book, full of refreshingly new science and engaging
history, about the essential quest to understand ourselves."
--Phillip A. Sharp, MIT, 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine"A landmark work, gorgeously written. No other researcher
has traveled as deeply into the brain forest and emerged to share
its secrets."
--David Eagleman, author of Incognito and Sum"Connectomics is
emerging as a crucial and exhilarating field of study. Sebastian
Seung takes you by the hand and shows you why. Connectome is a page
turner--a book that should be read by anyone who lays claim to be
thinking about the nature of life."
--Michael Gazzaniga, University of California at Santa Barbara and
author of Human and The Ethical Brain
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