Connectome

Because connections change more slowly than spiking patterns, they are less suited to active manipulation of information.

a feeling of difficulty often accompanies the experience of memory, while perception usually feels effortless.

If two neurons are repeatedly activated simultaneously, then the connections between them are strengthened in both directions.

A second factor is repetition.

all four R’s—reweighting, reconnection, rewiring, and regeneration—are

The best way of making humans effective is to minimize the time they waste on trivial tasks.

You are the activity of your neurons.

This tradeoff has been named the “stability–plasticity dilemma”

The other self is much more stable. It retains memories from childhood over an entire lifetime. Its nature—what we think of as personality—is largely constant, a fact that comforts family and friends.

You are more than your genes. You are your connectome.