Transhuman Visions 2014, February 1 @ Fort Mason, San Francisco

Dr. Randal A. Koene spoke at 2pm on February 1, 2014 at the Transhuman Visions conference at Fort mason, San Francisco, CA

The Transhuman Visions conference is organized by the think tank Brighterbrains.org.

As described on its web page, the conference is: "An All-Day Conference featuring Biohackers, Neuro-Optimists, Extreme Futurists, Philosophers, Immortalist Artists, Steal-the-Singularitarians, etc"

And the organization: "BrighterBrains.org is the communications outlet for the Brighter Brains Institute - a San Francisco Bay Area think tank & policy advocacy center.

Brighter Brains Institute is a Neuro-Advocacy organization. We favor neuro-enhancement for individuals and societies, we’re “neuro-optimistic” about this potentiality, and neuro-protective in our condemnation of destructive cultural behaviors. We believe intelligence can be immensely elevated and we promote innovations, research discoveries, and policies that safeguard and advance human cognition. Our areas of interest include mental health, neuroscience, education, effective parenting, social justice, robotics, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and life extension."

The abstract of Dr.Koene's talk:

Advances toward substrate-independent minds: Neural Interfaces, Neural Prostheses and Whole Brain Emulation

Randal A. Koene

carboncopies.org

Our update for the beginning of 2014, about self-directed evolution from the constraint of biology to a substrate-independent mind (SIM) and personality, a process alluded to in science fiction with the oft-confusing term "uploading". In this talk, I present the most realistic development route to SIM via whole brain emulation (WBE), neural prostheses and neural interfaces. I describe how I contribute to make this happen, as effectively as I can, through my work as it is presented at carboncopies.org. Then, I draw your attention to the most significant development in the field at this moment, an opportunity for a widely applicable Platform for high resolution neural interfaces. That platform has the potential in the near-term to provide the access needed for true brain machine interfaces, cognitive neural prostheses and the type of data acquisition that is essential for whole brain emulation.

Presented at Transhuman Visions 2014, February 1, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

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Slides are available as PDF: koene.transhuman-visions-2014.pdf

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For more information about the event, please see : http://brighterbrains.org/