Basic Connectomics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Connectomy
to chart the connections:
a connectome
what each part is,
how it supports the whole,
how it ought to interact with other parts
and the environment
how might we grasp the entirety?
understanding\
all this complexity\
millions of things\
happening simultaneously
within\
without
no point\
you can say,\
‘I now understand’
the world is.\
ideas conform.
information\
is the enemy\
of understanding
which details are irrelevant?\
making sense of facts\
truth through an unfocused lens\
sculpted by language\
processed by culture
watching ice melt\
we stoke the fire