are enough optimists who believe it can be done and they're convinced that after the success of the coding the human genome the era of the connectome will soon. in the united states the connectome has become so fashionable that some neuroscientists are advancing the theory that we are our own connect own they believe our thoughts memories and feelings are in coded in the billions of possible ways neurons interact randall colonel specializes in computational neuroscience an area of research that aims to understand our brains with the help of computer models. he says our brain is like a super computer capable of managing the huge amount of information it in