Connectome

every stream has a bed.

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

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

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

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.

Perception is the association of an idea with a stimulus, while thought is the association of an idea with another idea.

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

Today maps are practical items for me, not magical objects. As my childhood memories grow faint, I wonder whether my fascination with maps helped me cope with a fear of the world’s vastness. Back then, I never ventured beyond the streets of my neighborhood without my parents; the city beyond seemed frightening. Placing the entire world on a sphere

Over the ages, philosophers came up with a list of principles by which associations can be learned. At the top of the list is coincidence, sometimes called contiguity in time or place.