connectome...

now in nyt, connectome is getting more attention... :)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/science/28brain.html

in addition to the questions stated in the article, i got some more... 

1. structure at one point to functions? 

2. embodiment? each brain is connected to its own body... so probably we might

have to slice all the body... otherwise, the difference from different brain structure 

may be from different sensory input or different environment... 

3. overfitting? each brain has too many millions neurons and we can have "some" data 

(like a few data points in a very high dimensional space)...

consciousness meter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/science/21consciousness.html

this is awesome if we could measure the degree of consciousness like temperature...
they try to measure it based on the information amount in the subject's brain.
if lots of information flows, the brain is very conscious, otherwise, not so much.
i guess this idea or approach is closely related to Dr. Olaf Sporns' research,
which is to make a map of the brain network based on information flow.

anyway, recently, i see a lot of application of information theory to brain science
or even psychology...

maybe i am on the right track... ^^