Joergen Kornfeld - Bryant McGill

# Joergen Kornfeld **Entity class:** Researcher **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] ## Definition **Joergen Kornfeld** is a connectomics researcher whose program at the [[wiki/Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence|Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence]] and transition to the [[wiki/MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology|MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology]] connect research on learned behavior and synaptic wiring to the collaboration that developed [[wiki/PRISM (E11 Bio)|PRISM]]. His institutional biography describes work on connectomic correlates of long-term memory. That research context does not establish that PRISM itself reads memories or transfers consciousness. ## Relationships - **PRISM collaborator:** [[wiki/E11 Bio|E11 Bio]], [[wiki/Sam Rodriques|Sam Rodriques]], and [[wiki/Ed Boyden|Ed Boyden]]. - **PRISM role:** conceptualization and resources are listed in the preprint contribution statement. - **Collection route:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts  > "let the artificial neural networks reconstruct the real ones." > **— Joergen M. R. Kornfeld**, *Kornfeld Laboratory description* [[reminders/Connectomics/Reconstructing Real Neural Networks by Joergen M. R. Kornfeld|Reconstructing Real Neural Networks by Joergen M. R. Kornfeld]]  ## Sources - [E11 Bio — PRISM](https://www.e11.bio/blog/prism) - [Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence — Joergen Kornfeld](https://www.bi.mpg.de/kornfeld) ## Quotations  Quotations here are evidence for named propositions, not substitutes for proof. Confidence grades describe the quotation's provenance; they do not raise the associated scientific or philosophical inference to the same tier. The selection record is [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]] and the supplied quotation review dated 2026-09-11. **Corpus context:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] > “We aim at reading the first complex memory from a vertebrate brain” > > — **Joergen M. R. Kornfeld**, Kornfeld Lab research statement. [Source](https://www.kornfeldlab.org/) · **Provenance confidence:** High **Evidentiary role:** supports investigation of learned information in connectivity; it does not establish human autobiographical-memory recovery. > “create a link between the specific behavior of an individual and the connectome it is based on.” > > — **Joergen M. R. Kornfeld**, Kornfeld Lab long-term goal. [Source](https://www.kornfeldlab.org/) · **Provenance confidence:** High **Evidentiary role:** supports a typed behavior-to-connectome research relationship.