For the record, i wanted to post my brain online for many reasons.  First of all, I did it for science of course.  It&#x27;d be great for more of this data to be available online for people to study and work with.<p>There are many anonymized datasets available on Radiopaedia. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaedia.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaedia.org&#x2F;</a> I&#x27;ve spent quite a bit of time studying neurological conditions on that site and on wikipedia. Those are more useful, but anonymized. I&#x27;m not sure that there are many healthy MRI datasets available there, which makes it more difficult to statistically model MRI data.<p>I&#x27;m hoping to use Nipy and Dipy to create visualizations of my brain.  In particular, i&#x27;m hoping to recreate some of the Diffusion Tensor Imaging work in this talk by Ariel Rokem: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HdrSZtB0uX0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HdrSZtB0uX0</a>.  However, i&#x27;m not sure if my DT images are high enough resolution.<p>I also did it for philosophical reasons. I believe that all digitized information past and present will be inevitably become known &amp; public post facto. It&#x27;s the nature of information &amp; knowledge in our technological world to distribute itself until the world converges on total information omnipresence. So if, in the end, all [digitized] information is known, then there is no point in hiding information. This is more of a philosophical viewpoint though.  obviously it&#x27;s impossible for all information to converge in this way.<p>But this is true even of our own minds. And if our mind can be digitized from our brain, this also has interesting security implications. If you&#x27;ve seen the show stitchers, then you know what i mean.<p>Under no circumstances was this done in the name of art.