This TED video is a good explanation of the concept of a "connectome" for the layman: http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung.html http://www.ted.com/talks/seb

This TED video is a good explanation of the concept of a "connectome" for the layman: http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung.html http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung.html The simple connectome of c. elegans has been mapped, and there is an open source project to use this dataset and other data to run a full simulation of the worm in a virtual environment: http://openworm.org http://openworm.org