Part 1: Does size matter?
Chapter 1: Genius and Madness
Chapter 2: The Boundary Debate

Part 2 Connectionism
Chapter 3: Neurons Are Not Islands
All neurons to the bottom of Chapter 4
Chapter 5: Assembly of Memory

Part 3: Nature and Nurture
Chapter 6: Managing the Forest of Genes
Chapter 7: Renewing Your Potential

Part 4 Connectomics
Chapter 8: Seeing is Believing
Chapter 9: Following the Footsteps
Cut and divide into 10 pieces
Chapter 11: Decoding the Code
Compare Chapter 12
Chapter 13: Making Changes

Part 5: Beyond Human Limits
Chapter 14 Freezing or Pickling
Chapter 15 ~ Save (or Save)

Throwing the topic of connectome to the intellectual world around the world
A unique book that has garnered attention from world-renowned scholars and the media!

In April 2013, US President Obama announced plans to invest more than $100 million in a brain project to develop technologies to measure human brain activity and uncover how it works.
The goal of the project, called the Brain Initiative, is to complete a complete map of all the pathways and activities of the human brain, revealing how neurons within it interact.
The European Union also plans to invest more than €1 billion in brain research starting in 2013.
At the center of the brain research, which is being conducted competitively to solve the mysteries of the brain, which remains the greatest and final mystery of the human body, is the 'connectome', a map of the brain that contains all the connections and operating principles of its 100 billion nerve cells.
This book is the first popular book written by MIT professor Dr. Seung Hyun-jun (Sebastian Seung), a world authority in the field of 'connectome' research, which is receiving attention from the scientific community around the world and called the greatest scientific revolution since the Genome Project, about the connectome research process, its achievements, and future vision. It is evaluated as the best scientific book showing the current state of advanced brain science and its future prospects.


Dr. Seung-Hyun Jun introduced the concept of 'connectome' in his TED talk titled 'I am my connectome' in 2010. This lecture received worldwide attention and became the catalyst for popularizing the concept of 'connectome'.
This book, written based on this lecture, not only raised the topic of "connectome" in the global intellectual community as soon as it was published, but also attracted the attention of world-renowned scholars and the media, and was selected as one of the top 10 non-fiction books by the Wall Street Journal.


In this book, Dr. Seung-Hyun Jun provides a fascinating account of the experiments of countless scientists who have attempted to understand the structure of the brain and unravel its mysteries, from 19th-century phrenology to connectome research utilizing cutting-edge technologies like fMRI, and the development of neuroscience to map the brain.
Not only does it explain the principles by which our memories, minds, and personalities are stored and utilized in the brain, but it also delves into the future prospects of connectomics, which will completely change the meaning of life and death, drawing readers into the unfamiliar world of connectomes.

The most daring and ambitious challenge to the human brain and mind!
The vision and future prospects of human connectome research, a brain science project that has captured the attention of the global scientific community!

The reason the scientific community is paying attention to connectome research is because the solutions to mental illnesses such as dementia, stroke, Parkinson's disease, and depression are contained within the connectome.
And furthermore, it can explain the understanding of human nature and even the differences between people.

For decades, the most scientific basis for explaining human characteristics has been genetics.
However, genes alone cannot explain the specific causes of mental illness, how each human being came to have the brain structure they do today, or where differences in the human mind originate.
Considering that all of the basic human behaviors—thinking, deciding, and acting—are achieved through electrical and chemical signal transmission between neurons in the brain, it can be said that what makes us who we are, that is, what determines our uniqueness, is our connectome.
In this context, Dr. Seunghyun Jun says:
"I am my connectome."

Unlike genes, connectomes change throughout life through processes of reconnection, reweighting, rewiring, and regeneration.
This book provides a fascinating account of various experimental results showing how the connectome, which forms the basis of the human mind, memory, and personality, changes through these four processes, and how genes and the environment relate to changes in the connectome. It also explains the bold and ambitious challenges of numerous scientists to find ways to complete and change the human connectome.

There are still technological limitations that must be overcome to complete the connectome, which can be considered a map of the human mind and a blueprint for the spirit.
However, Dr. Seung-Hyun Jun predicts that the human connectome will be completed before the end of the 21st century, and says that the completion of the human connectome will not only bring medical advancements in the treatment of mental disorders, but will also completely change our thinking about what it means to be human.
And going one step further, it vividly depicts the revolutionary future that the discovery of the connectome will bring, from cryonics, which freezes the human body and later revives it, to mind uploading, which uploads the human mind to a computer and allows it to live as a computer simulation.