The Stochastic Brain: from DNA Blueprint to Behavior

The brain, with its astronomically complex interconnections and lifelong plasticity, self-assembles using a restricted instruction set of genes. Random processes, physical principles, and the DNA instruction set guide the formation of molecular interactomes and neuronal connectomes. Our selves, like a murmuration of birds, are composed of interactions of individual elements with their own intrinsic life and purpose, the individual elements being replaceable.