Resuscitation and Reintegration of Cryonics Patients, 12 May 2013, Portland, OR

Dr. Randal A. Koene presented at the Resucitation and Reintegration of Cryonics Patients symposium in Portland, OR, on May 12, 2013

The symposium is organized by Aschwin de Wolf and will take place at The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel in Portland, OR. Speakers include:

• • BEN BEST - EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF CRYONICS PATIENTS

  • CHANA DE WOLF - RECONSTRUCTIVE CONNECTOMICS

  • RANDAL KOENE - BRAIN EMULATION AND NEUROPROSTHETICS: A SYSTEM OF FUNCTIONS TO BE SUSTAINED

  • MAX MORE - MAXIMIZING REVIVAL PROBABILITY: PRESERVATION, RECORDING, INTERPOLATION, AND RECONSTRUCTION

  • KEEGAN MACINTOSH - REINTEGRATION OF CRYONICS PATIENTS: LEGAL AND LOGISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

  • ASCHWIN DE WOLF - CRYONICS WITHOUT REPAIR

Abstracts are available on the event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/351957221581992/

Here is the full title and abstract for Dr. Koene's talk:

Brain Emulation and Neuroprosthetics: A System of Functions to be Sustained

Being, now or following revival from cryopreservation, ultimately depends on one's ability to experience and to do so in the manner that is characteristic of one's individual mind. Recently, it has become possible to address this problem in a concrete and systematic manner, largely due to rapid advances in computational neuroscience and data acquisition, both structurally (the popular field of “connectomics”) and functionally (brain activity mapping). The process of personal experience – like any process – involves some mechanisms operating at a given time under the influence of an environment state, a state that can include sensory input and functional “memory” established as a result of prior conditions. An emulation or prosthesis is then the attempt to replace a system of processing with an equivalent set of mechanisms that carry out the same processing within established success criteria. The engineering approach to understanding a system sufficiently that it can be emulated or replaced by prostheses is known as system identification. I will describe how system identification may be feasibly carried out for an individual human brain, and how constraints and requirements can be learned through projects with iterative improvements. I will present the projects that are underway to develop neuroscience tools with which successful system identification may be accomplished

For more information about the event please see the event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/351957221581992/