Introduction to Michael Anissimov

Michael Anissimov(In his own words)
I’m Michael Anissimov, a science/technology writer and consultant living in San Francisco. I have a deep interest in the future of science and technology, and see technology as creating as the board on which social and political games are played.

There are two particular technologies which will have a radical destabilizing effect on the globe once they pass certain progress thresholds – molecular nanotechnology (MNT) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). These technologies are likely to be deployed sometime between 2020 and 2040, and if we don’t handle them with the utmost caution, they could cause disaster.

Accordingly, much of the material you will find on this site is devoted to presenting evidence in favor of this view, and encouraging the reader to get involved in the ongoing ethics dialogue or even active support of research. I’m interested in many other topics, like arms control and foreign policy, but my focus on MNT and AGI is what distinguishes me from most people you’ll run across. Like so many other techie hipsters nowadays, my personal philosophy is transhumanist.

My background: in 2002, when I was a senior in High School, I co-founded the Immortality Institute, a life extension organization that today includes hundreds of paying members and an active online community. In 2006 I founded the Accelerating Future blog, which gets over 70,000 unique visitors per month and has been featured on G4TV, SciFi.com, and the front page of Digg and Reddit. I’m currently Media Director for the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Fundraising Director, North America for the Lifeboat Foundation, and am involved in the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology. I’ve given talks on futurist issues at seminars and conferences in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and at Yale University.

Reference:
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com

Introduction to “The Singularity Institute”-http://singinst.org

I would like to introduce “The Singularity Institute” as below:

About Us
Our MissionThe Singularity Institute brings rational analysis and rational strategy to the challenges facing humanity as we develop cognitive technologies that will exceed the current upper bounds on human intelligence. Inspired by the latest science of human fallibility, we strive to correct the biases that run wild in standard futurism and philanthropy; we convene the annual Singularity Summit to coordinate and educate scientists and other concerned individuals on these issues; inspire our Visiting Fellows from college students to PhDs to address these issues in their future careers; and support our Research Fellows as they engage in original research on topics ranging from human rationality and cognitive enhancement to foundational research in Artificial Intelligence.

Team
President
Michael Vassar is SIAI’s President, and provides overall leadership of the SIAI as it develops its research capabilities and its role as a forum for discussion of the challenges and potential of artificial general intelligence. He is also responsible for the organization of the Singularity Summit. Previously, he was a Founder and Chief Strategist at SirGroovy.com, an online music licensing firm. Prior to that, he held positions with Aon, the Peace Corps, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Michael has been writing and speaking on topics related to the safe development of disruptive technologies for a number of years: his papers include the Lifeboat Foundation analysis of the risks of advanced molecular manufacturing co-authored with Robert Freitas, and “Corporate Cornucopia”, authored for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology Task Force. He holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. in biochemistry.

Email: mvassar(at)singinst(dot)org

Singularity Summit Co-Founder
Ray Kurzweil, CEO of Kurzweil Technologies, has been described as “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc. Magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS included him as one of the 16 “revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries. As one of the leading inventors of our time, Ray has worked in such areas as music synthesis, speech and character recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, and cybernetic art. He was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. All of these pioneering technologies continue today as market leaders. His website, KurzweilAI.net, has over one million readers. Among his many honors, he is the recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the world’s largest for innovation. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor in technology, from President Clinton. In 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame , established by the US Patent Office. Ray has also received twelve honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents. His books include The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Age of Spiritual Machines, and Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever. Three of his books have been national best sellers. His latest best-selling book, published by Viking Press, is The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.

Chairman, Board of Directors
Edwin Evans is the Chairman of the Singularity Institute Board of Directors and the Co-Founder of Quinly Inc., a developer of applications for social networks and mobile platforms. Prior to starting Quinly, Edwin was employed as a Senior Software Engineer at Motorola, KLA-Tencor, and Aveo. Edwin is also a co-sponsor of the 2010 Singularity Research Challenge. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Contact Us
For general inquiries, send email to institute@singinst.org.

Singularity Institute
P.O. Box 472079
San Francisco, CA, 94147 USA

Introduction to Sharp­Brains.com

As part of blogging about Mind Sciences, I would like introduce a leading blog on this topic as below.
Sharp­Brains.com
Our Mission and Team
What We do
Sharp­Brains is an inde­pen­dent mar­ket research firm and think tank cov­er­ing the emerg­ing brain fit­ness mar­ket. In 2009, the firm released its flag­ship report The State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2009, for decision-makers, and the con­sumer guide The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness, for every­one with a brain. In Jan­u­ary 2010 we pro­duced the first global and vir­tual Sharp­Brains Sum­mit, a 3-day online con­fer­ence where 250+ pro­fes­sion­als in 16 coun­tries dis­cussed the state of the research, tech­nol­ogy and market.

SharpBrains.com, the firm’s edu­ca­tional blog and web­site, is a mem­ber of Sci­en­tific Amer­i­can Part­ner Network.

Our Mis­sion
Our mis­sion is to pro­vide inde­pen­dent, research-based, infor­ma­tion and guid­ance to nav­i­gate the grow­ing cog­ni­tive and brain fit­ness market.

Our Found­ing Team
Alvaro Fer­nan­dez is Sharp­Brains’ co-founder and Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer. He has been quoted by The New York Times, CNN, Reuters, and Asso­ci­ated Press, among oth­ers. Alvaro is a mem­ber of the Global Agenda Coun­cils ini­tia­tive run by the World Eco­nomic Forum, and recently wrote the acclaimed arti­cles Prepar­ing Soci­ety for the Cog­ni­tive Age, for Fron­tiers in Neu­ro­science, and Why We Need to Retool Use It or Lose It, for the Jour­nal of Active Aging. He started his career at McK­in­sey & Com­pany and led the launch and turn­around of sev­eral pub­lish­ing and edu­ca­tion com­pa­nies in the US and Europe, includ­ing Ber­tels­mann On Line, Docent, Inc, and Edu­soft, a unit of Houghton Mif­flin. Alvaro has an MBA and MA in Edu­ca­tion from Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity, and enjoys teach­ing The Sci­ence of Brain Health at SFSU and UC-Berkeley Osher Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tute. Detailed LinkedIn Pro­file: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez.

Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg is Sharp­Brains’ co-founder and Chief Sci­en­tific Advi­sor. He leads Sharp­Brains Sci­en­tific Advi­sory Board. Dr. Gold­berg is an author, sci­en­tist, edu­ca­tor and clin­i­cian, inter­na­tion­ally renowned for his clin­i­cal work, research, writ­ings and teach­ing in neu­ropsy­chol­ogy and cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science. He is a Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­ogy at New York Uni­ver­sity School of Med­i­cine, and Diplo­mate of The Amer­i­can Board of Pro­fes­sional Psy­chol­ogy in Clin­i­cal Neu­ropsy­chol­ogy. A stu­dent and close asso­ciate of the great neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Alexan­der Luria, Dr. Gold­berg has con­tin­ued to advance Luria’s sci­en­tific and clin­i­cal tra­di­tion, and writ­ten pop­u­lar sci­ence books such as The Exec­u­tive Brain: Frontal Lobes and The Civ­i­lized Mind and The Wis­dom Para­dox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older.

Contact Us
We appre­ci­ate your inter­est and will respond promptly. You can con­tact us:

By tele­phone: 415.318.3467.

By mail: Sharp­Brains
660 4th Street, Suite 205
San Fran­cisco, CA 94107
USA.

Introduction to Technolife

What is Technolife
Technolife is a research project funded by European Union that aims at creating a debate on ethical issues relating to body and mind enhancement technologies.
We all know that early enthusiasm about new technologies often avoids difficult ethical, legal, economic, social and environmental considerations. We also know that existing mechanisms for understanding and debating this are insufficient and new ways must be found for a greater number of voices to be heard within our social, political and regulatory systems.
To respond to this problem, we are interested in personal and occupational views from all different sectors of society. We have set up an experimental deliberation tool and our goal is to discover new ways to improve participation in discussing and debating the future of our technologically sophisticated world.

The main goal of TECHNOLIFE is to develop new ways to improve the participation in debating about ethical, legal, economic, social and environmental impacts of new technologies.
The outcomes of the project will be presented to high-level policy makers within the European Union.

Who are we
We (the Technolife research team) are social scientists and ethicists participating in debates about the social and environmental aspects of emerging technologies.

We think that existing mechanisms for understanding and debating novel technologies are insufficient, and that new ways must be found for a greater number of voices to be heard within our political and regulatory systems.

The Technolife team involved research groups from 7 European Countries:

European Commission – Joint Research Center – Italy

Manchester University – UK

Lancaster University – UK

Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona – Spain

Universita de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en Yvelines – France

University of Bergen – Norway (coordinator)

University of Copenhagen – Denmark

University of Tartu – Estonia

Reference:
http://www.technolife.no
http://body.kertechno.net/

Introduction to “The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI)”

About
The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) is a unique multidisciplinary research institute at the University of Oxford. FHI belongs to the Faculty of Philosophy and the Oxford Martin School.

MissionThe Future of Humanity Institute’s mission is to bring careful thinking to bear on big-picture questions about humanity and its prospects. The Institute’s work focuses on how future technology might affect fundamental parameters of the human condition, the risks and opportunities involved, and the epistemic, moral, and prioritization issues that confront actors who pursue long-range global objectives. They currently pursue four interlinked research programs:

•Global catastrophic risks: What are the biggest threats to global civilization and human well-being? How can the human species survive the 21st century?
•Human enhancement: How can medicine and technology be used to enhance basic biological capacities, such as cognition and lifespan? Can enhancement be ethical and wise?
•Applied epistemology and rationality: How can we make better decisions under conditions of profound uncertainty and high stakes? How can we reduce bias and human error in our decision-making?
•Future technologies: What would be the impacts of potentially transformative technologies such as advanced nanotechnology and artificial intelligence?

Reference: http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/

Introduction to Humanity+ (formerly known as the World Transhumanist Association)

As part of my activity related Rational Solution serarch, i would like to introduce Humanity+.
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Humanity+ (formerly known as the World Transhumanist Association) is an international nonprofit membership organization which advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities. They support the development of and access to new technologies that enable everyone to enjoy better minds, better bodies and better lives. In other words, They want people to be better than well.

Contact
For general inquiries, you can contact Humanity+ at info@humanityplus.org.

For media/press inquiries, contact our PR team at press@humanityplus.org.

If you are interested in volunteering, contact our Volunteer Coordination team at volunteer@humanityplus.org.

You can also reach us by phone at (310) 916-9676.

Humanity+’s mailing address is:
Humanity+
5042 Wilshire Boulevard, # 14334
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Reference: http://humanityplus.org/

Introduction to Ray Kurzweil-The Age of Spiritual Machines

Here goes an other Rational Expert, really interesting stuff.

About Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
Launched in 2001, KurzweilAI explores the forecasts and insights on accelerating change articulated in Ray Kurzweil’s landmark books — notably The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Singularity Is Near — and updates these books with key breakthroughs in science and technology.

The “AI” in KurzweilAI refers to “accelerating intelligence,” a core concept that underlies the exponential growth of the pervasive information-based technologies — both biological and machine — that are radically changing our world. These include biotechnology, nanotechnology, molecular electronics, computation, artificial intelligence, robotics, neuroscience, physics, Internet, energy, electronics, pattern recognition, virtual reality, human brain reverse engineering, and brain and body augmentation. The leading visionaries represented on this site cover these and other topics, and examine the trends that are profoundly impacting science, economics, the arts, politics, government, warfare, medicine, health, education, disabilities, behavior, and society.

Ray Kurzweil Bio.
Ray Kurzweil has been described as “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries.

As one of the leading inventors of our time, Ray was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray’s web site Kurzweil AI.net has over one million readers.

Reference: http://www.kurzweilai.net

Introduction about Nick Bostrom – “Enhancing Humans”

While googling about “Enhancing Humans”, i have found that Nick Bostrom have written a book about the same topic.Here is a little brief about him.

Nick Bostrom is Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, and Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and in the Oxford Martin School (formerly the James Martin 21st Century School). He previously taught at Yale. He has 190 publications to his name, including three books: Anthropic Bias (Routledge, 2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (ed., OUP, 2008), and Enhancing Humans (ed., OUP, 2009). His writings have been translated into 19 different languages, and reprinted in numerous anthologies and textbooks. Bostrom has a background in physics, computational neuroscience, and mathematical logic as well as philosophy. His current research centers on big picture questions for humanity, with foci on issues in the foundations of probability theory, scientific methodology and rationality, human enhancement, global catastrophic risks, moral philosophy, and consequences of future technology. In 2009, he was given the inaugural Eugene R. Gannon Award for the Continued Pursuit of Human Advancement, and he made the FP 100 Global Thinkers list, the Foreign Policy Magazine’s list of “the 100 minds that mattered most in the year that was”.

Reference: http://www.nickbostrom.com

Introduction about Matt – Human 2.0 – Blog

While googling i have found a Blog by Rational expert from San Diego, CA, here is a Breif about him.

His name is Matt and he live in San Diego, CA. He graduated San Diego State University with a degree in Kinesiology, emphasis Fitness, Nutrition and Health.

His primary interests are how humanity, specifically the human body, will be changed by the advent of new technologies. He is optimistic about the potential of GNR (genetic, nanotech, robotic) technologies to drastically improve the living standard of humanity. He is also pessimistic of humanities ability to use these technologies for positive rather than negative reasons (see atomic bomb.) He suppose that makes me a middle of the road type.

Reference:http://allaroundathlete.wordpress.com

Dr Aafia Siddiqui-Neuroscientist of Pakistani Citizenship and Muslim religion – Lady Al-Qaeda

With reference to my practice of introducing Rational Experts in my Blog,I am happy to introduced Neuroscientist of Pakistani Citizenship and Muslim religion-Dr Aafia Siddiqui. I am sad at the same time,because today she has been sentenced to prison for 86 Years for supporting Al-Qaeda. She was named as “Lady Al-Qaeda” by New York Daily News.
Her Story is full of Lies And Deception By The Americans, accordong to few open minded resources.So She is very controversal personality in press/media.
Here is little brief about her.
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Aafia Siddiqui (born March 2, 1972, in Karachi, Pakistan) is an American-educated Pakistani cognitive neuroscientist who has been convicted after a jury trial in a U.S. federal court, of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan.

A devout Muslim who had engaged in Islamic charity work and proselytizing in the U.S., Siddiqui moved back to Pakistan in 2002. She disappeared with her three young children in March 2003, shortly after the arrest of her second husband’s uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. (Mohammed is the alleged chief planner of the September 11 attacks.) Siddiqui was added to the FBI Seeking Information – War on Terrorism list in 2003, which stated that although the Bureau had no specific information connecting Siddiqui to terrorism, it wanted to locate and question her.In May 2004, however, the FBI named Siddiqui as one of seven FBI Most Wanted Terrorists. Her whereabouts remained unknown for more than five years. In July 2008, she was arrested in Afghanistan outside the compound of the governor of Ghazni Province, on suspicion of being a suicide bomber. The Afghan police said she was carrying in her handbag handwritten notes on how to make C-4 explosives, gunpowder, deadly viruses, and machines to shoot down U.S. drones. She was also said to be carrying two pounds of deadly poison, a computer thumb drive, and descriptions of New York City landmarks, including the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty.

Introduction to “The Enhancement Institute”-Dr. Nancy E. White

The Enhancement Institute synthesizes traditional psychology with state of the art technology into a holistic treatment for the enhancement of the “whole” person–body, mind, and spirit.

Dr. Nancy E. White, Ph. D.
Dr. White holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, an MA in Behavioral Science, and a B.F.A in Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude. In addition, she is licensed in the State of Texas as a Psychologist, a Marriage and Family Therapist and as a Chemical Dependency Counselor. She also is a Registered Art Therapist, a Certified Sex Therapist (AASECT) and a clinical Fellow in the Academy of Clinical Sexologists.

She is the founder and director of The Enhancement Institute in Houston, Texas.

Dr. White serves on the Board of Advisors of KEYS International and is a Master Teacher of The KEYS Program which is an intensive four-month course in relationships. She co-facilitates KEYS in Houston with her partner of 20 years, Leonard Richards, Th.D. She has been widowed twice, and has 4 children and 8 grandchildren.

Dr. White is a recognized leader in the field of Neurotherapy. She is a Diplomate in Quantitative EEG Technology, a member of the Quantitative EEG Certification Board, and a Consulting Editor of the Journal of Neurotherapy. She has been a contributing author to professional books, and has authored a number of articles for professional journals on this subject including The Journal of Mind Technology and Introduction to Quantitative EEG and Neurofeedback. She has conducted Neurotherapy workshops across the country and abroad teaching health practitioners how to utilize this technology with their own patients. Dr. White’s success with innovative approaches to treatment also makes her a sought after presenter at international health care conferences.

Reference:http://www.enhancementinstitute.com

Transparent Corporation – Software for brainwave entrainment, biofeedback, psychology and hypnosis

Company

The Transparent Corporation is an international collective of researchers, analysts, engineers and enthusiasts who have been brought together by their common interest in brainwave entrainment, biofeedback, psychology and hypnosis. Pooling knowledge and talents, to create the most effective brain stimulation products on the market today, based on solid research and thorough testing.

The people at Transparent are avid users of mind technology and are dedicated to science and the further exploration of human potential.

Our Mission

We at Transparent have made it our common goal to become the group most known for development of software to solve human problems innovatively, improve life and advance human capability. We are also committed to improving brainwave entrainment methods and bringing the power of brain stimulation to the public in an affordable, accessible way.

Our Values

1) Our desire is for each person to reach their full potential.

2) Our profits should only come from work that benefits humanity.

3) Our products will be offered at the lowest cost possible to ensure affordable solutions for everyone.

Transparent products are based on nearly 60 years of accumulated brainwave entrainment research. We have scoured the scientific journals, consulted with experts in every applicable field and worked with engineers to develop the most effective possible products. All of our products include full documentation on our research and methods.

Transparent products provide an inexpensive and effective means to:

1) Use the power of brain stimulation for personal growth, enhancement or entertainment.

2) Induce desirable change in people and their environments; to help them get what they want and need out of life or help them rid themselves of their internal struggles so they have more energy and time to focus on whatever they feel is important.

3) Provide people with a better understanding of their own thought patterns, subconscious and personality.

Reference: http://www.transparentcorp.com

About the Society for Neuroscience-SFN

About the Society for Neuroscience

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is a nonprofit membership organization of scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system. Since its inception in 1969, the Society has grown from 500 members to over 40,000. Today, SfN is the world’s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to advancing understanding of the brain and nervous system.

The Society at Work

SfN creates venues for sharing great science in an expanding field.

•Holds the SfN annual meeting each fall, attracting more than 30,000 attendees from around the globe and creating the world’s largest forum for emerging research on brain science and health

•Publishes The Journal of Neuroscience, the largest weekly scholarly journal dedicated to neuroscience discovery
SfN supports the neuroscience community, connecting people around the globe and across specialties.

•Supports a growing membership of over 40,000, offering extensive member benefits for neuroscientists at all career stages

•Coordinates with more than 130 chapters worldwide to facilitate activity in professional development, public education, and advocacy

•Provides professional development and training programs for students and scientists throughout the career span
SfN educates the public about the wonders of the brain, and advocates for policies that promote research.

•Supports and encourages K-12 education, in collaboration with educators

•Provides public information through high-quality publications and media relations

•Advocates for bold and visionary science funding to advance science and improve health, and for policies that support responsible animal research

Society Mission
SfN’s mission is to:
1. Advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of diverse backgrounds, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological organization, and by encouraging translational research and the application of new scientific knowledge to develop improved disease treatments and cures.

2. Provide professional development activities, information, and educational resources for neuroscientists at all stages of their careers, including undergraduates, graduates, and postdoctoral fellows, and increase participation of scientists from a diversity of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

3. Promote public information and general education about the nature of scientific discovery and the results and implications of the latest neuroscience research. Support active and continuing discussions on ethical issues relating to the conduct and outcomes of neuroscience research.

4. Inform legislators and other policymakers about new scientific knowledge and recent developments in neuroscience research and their implications for public policy, societal benefit, and continued scientific progress.

Reference:
http://www.sfn.org

Introduction to “Anders Sandberg”

Anders Sandberg is a Great computer scientist and humman mind thinker.

Education
Upper secondary school (“Studentexamen”) at the natural science programme at Vasalundsgymnasiet, Solna 1991.
Student at the mathematics-natural science program with computer science specialization at Stockholm University and independent courses at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology 1991-1997.

M.Sc degree in computer science 1997 from Stockholm University.

Ph.D. degree in computer science 2003 from Stockholm University.

Doctoral Thesis
Doctoral thesis: Bayesian Attractor Neural Network Models of Memory.
Master’s Degree
Master’s thesis: Gesture Recognition Using Neural Networks

Publications
Books
Anders Sandberg, Alexander Sanchez & Waldemar Ingdahl, Som Egenmäktiga Gudar: Den svenska debatten om gen- och bioteknik på 1970- och 80-talen, Timbro Förlag, 2002.
Book Chapters
“Kong Markatta II – en transhumanists erkendelser” in Homo sapiens 2.0 – Når teknologien kryber ind under huden, ed. Gert Balling, ISBN 87-12-03890-3, Gads Forlag, 2002
“The Vastening of David Zindell” and cover in Earth Is but a Star : Excursions Through Science Fiction to the Far Future, ed. Damien Broderick, Univ of Western Australia Press, 2001

Computational Neuroscience
Anders Sandberg and Erik Fransen, An Autocatalytic Model of STDP Timing from Slow Calcium Signals. To be published in Neurocomputing.

Anders Sandberg, Jesper Tegnér and Anders Lansner, A Working Memory Model Based on Fast Learning. Network: Computation in Neural Systems, volume 14, issue 4, pages 789-802, 2003.

Anders Lansner, Erik Fransen and Anders Sandberg. Cell assembly dynamics in detailed and abstract attractor models of cortical associative memory, Theory in Biosciences 122:19-35, 2002

Christopher Johansson, Anders Sandberg and Anders Lansner, A Neural Network with Hypercolumns, Proceedings of ICANN-2002, Madrid, Springer-Verlag 2002

Anders Sandberg, Anders Lansner, Karl-Magnus Petersson & Örjan Ekeberg, A Bayesian attractor network with incremental learning. Network: Computation in Neural Systems volume 13 issue 2 (May 2002) 79-194.

Anders Sandberg & Anders Lansner, Synaptic Depression as an Intrinsic Driver of Reinstatement Dynamics in an Attractor Network. Neurocomputing 44-46: 615-622 (2002)

Anders Lansner and Anders Sandberg (2001). Functionality and Performance of Brain-Inspired Neural Networks. NOLTA 2001, Zao, Sendai, Japan. 501-504.

Anders Sandberg, Anders Lansner, Karl-Magnus Petersson, Selective Enhancement of Recall through Plasticity Modulation in an Autoassociative Memory. Neurocomputing 38-40 (2001) 867-873.

Anders Lansner, Anders Sandberg and K. M. Petersson. On Forgetful Attractor Memories. ANNIMAB-1, Gothemburg, Sweden. 54-62. (2000) Invited.

Anders Sandberg, Anders Lansner, Karl-Magnus Petersson and Örjan Ekeberg, A Palimpsest Memory based on an Incremental Bayesian Learning Rule, Neurocomputing 32-33 (2000) 987-994.

Anders Sandberg, Anders Lansner, Karl-Magnus Petersson and Örjan Ekeberg, An incremental Bayesian learning rule, Tech. report TRITA-NA-P9908 NADA, KTH, Stockholm 1999.

Mikael Djurfeldt, Anders Sandberg. See — a framework for simulation of biologically detailed and artificial neural networks and systems. Neurocomputing 26-27 (1999) 997-1003

Intelligence Amplification
One of the most promising transhumanist goals is to increase the mental abilities of humans to new levels. This can be done using various cognition enhancing drugs (nootropics), bionic enhancements, uploading, information management strategies or ancient methods like mnemonics, training or efficient thinking.

Another goal is to be able to modify our minds; to change our personalities, memories, skills or thought-patterns to suit the situation or our ideals, see the Mental Enhancement Page for this.

People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
Celia Green
There is no a priori reason why a human being should not combine the qualities, say, of Einstein, Shakespeare, Mozart, Darwin, J.M.W. Turner, a nuthatch and a pocket calculator. Indeed, there is no a priori reason why such a paragon should not be considered ordinary.
Colin Tudge
Transhumanism has many forms, sometimes apparently contradictory. Its essence is in my opinion, that we humans can, and shouldcontinue to develop ourselves in all possible directions. The bodies and minds evolution has given us are wonderful, but far from perfect. They can be improved in many ways, and this can be done in a rational manner using science and technology. In the same way many other parts of the “Human Condition” may be changed through new methods and visions. In the long run, we will no longer be human anymore, but posthuman beings.
Of course, not all people would like to go this far. Some might want to improve themselves somewhat, but still remain essentially as before. Others might reject any improvements outright for various reasons. From a transhumanistic standpoint, this is no problem. If they don’t want to go in our direction, they are welcome to remain humans. What we cannot accept is other people putting restrictions on our quest towards transhumanity; in that case we have to prevent them from interfering, probably by simply avoiding them. In no way do we want to force anybody to anything.

Reference:
http://www.aleph.se/

Introduction of “Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN)”

Danish National Research Foundation‘s Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN).  Part of the Clinical Institute at University of Aarhus, CFIN is located at Århus Sygehus, Aarhus University Hospital. CFIN joins brain researchers from numerous departments, institutes and faculties within University of Aarhus and The Royal Academy of Music, in an effort to understand the human brain.

Our goal is to understand the ability of the human brain to adapt to experience, during normal development, learning and interaction with the surrounding social and physical environment. In a cross-disciplinary effort, we employ this knowledge to understand the biochemical and structural effects of neurological disease or substance abuse. We believe this will ultimately lead to better understanding of neurological diseases and their treatment.

History of CFIN

Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN) was formed as an extension of a long-lasting scientific collaboration among brain researchers within Aarhus University Hospital. To strengthen this research, an application to Danmarks Grundforskningsfond (Danish National Research Foundation) was submitted in 2000, co-signed by:

• Professor Niels Ehlers, Ophthalmology
• Professor Christian Brahe Pedersen, ENT
• Professor Jens Astrup, Neurosurgery
• Professor Johannes Jakobsen, Neurology
• Professor Leif Østergaard, Neuroradiology Research Unit
• Professor Albert Gjedde, PET Center Aarhus
• Professor Carsten Gyldensted, Neuroradiology
• Professor Raben Rosenberg, Psychiatry
• Professor Jens Christian Djurhuus, Clinical Institute 

In October 2001 a contract was signed, granting CFIN DKK 33,765,000 to carry out research as defined in a contract. Since then, collaborations have continued to form with other Faculties within University of Aarhus, as well as other academic institutions and industry.   

Reference: http://www.cfin.au.dk

Introduction to “Dana Foundation”

OVERVIEW

 The Dana Foundation is a private philanthropic organization that supports brain research through grants and educates the public about the successes and potential of brain research.  Dana produces free publications; coordinates the International Brain Awareness Week campaign; supports the Dana Alliances, a network of neuroscientists; and maintains a Web site, www.dana.org.

RESEARCH

The Dana Foundation’s science and health grants support clinical research in neuroscience and neuroimmunology and their interrelationship in human health and disease.

Grant programs include brain imaging, clinical neuroscience research, and neuroimmunology. The Web pages provide descriptions of the focus of each of these programs, application guidelines and summaries of supported studies and their results.

The Foundation also occasionally sponsors workshops and forums for working scientists and curricula development in areas related to its program grants.

The Dana Foundation and The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives:

745 Fifth Avenue, Suite 900
New York, NY 10151
Phone:(212) 223-4040
Fax:(212) 317-8721

E-MAIL

Dana Foundation
danainfo@dana.org

Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives
dabiinfo@dana.org

Media/Press inquiries
pressinfo@dana.org

Grants inquiries
grantsinfo@dana.org

Reference: http://www.dana.org

Universal Soldier: Regeneration – A Moive about industrialization of human being

Universal Soldier: Regeneration is based on idea of  industrialization of human being.

This is very hot topic of this blog. Enjoy the read and must, see the moive.

Universal Soldier: Regeneration (also known in some countries as Universal Soldier: A New Beginning) is the third film in the Universal Soldier feature film series. It is directed by John Hyams (son of director Peter Hyams, who previously worked with Van Damme on two films, 1994′s Timecop and 1995′s Sudden Death; in this film Peter is the director of photography) with the screenplay written by Victor Ostrovsky. It stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, who both reprise their roles from the first film.

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Inception- Moive based on Mind Reading

Mind reading is very hot topic, recently a new moive is release based on this idea, named as “Inception“.

Inception is a 2010 American science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine. DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a thief who extracts information from the subconscious mind of his victims while they dream. Unable to visit his children, Cobb is offered a chance to regain his old life in exchange for one last job: performing inception, the planting of an idea into the mind of his client’s competitor.

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Movie has made the “Mind Reading” as fictional theory. But Still its practicality can’t be denied. It will rule the future human generations.

Email from Canada -Not a Victim’s blog

When i started this blog, i decided that it will never turn to be a Victim’s blog. But few days back i got an email that shocked me. So I want to share with every one.

I got an email as:

Author : Sherry B. (IP: 70.70.234.95 , 70.70.234.95)
E-mail : XXXXXXXXXXXXX@yahoo.ca
I DO NOT ANSWER E-MAIL…TO BE MORE OR LESS…IS TO BE THE TARGET OF THE  CULT…HERE IN WHITE ROCK B.C. CANADA…I AM FOLLOWED AND PLAGUED BY THE SAME MONSTERS THAT CLAIM TO BE PEOPLE…THEY FOLLOW ME EVERYWHERE…REPEATING EVERY SENTENCE YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT…DEMONIC AND DRIVERS…PROGRAMMERS AND CAUSE STALKERS…SOME WORK WITH THE CITY…SOME DO NOT…THE MEDIA REPLAYS THE NEWS…AND, I WAS UNDER ATTACK…AND HAD A REALITY REFORMATION…THIS INVOLVED DRUGS,THAT MADE ME ILL FOR THREE DAYS…I HAVE HAD TWO NEEDLE MARKS IN MY RIGHT FOOT AND HEAR CLICKS IN MY LEFT EAR…THEY HAVE BECOME BOLD…THEY ENTER MY HOME WHEN EVER I LEAVE IT…AND STATION THEIR PEOPLE AT THE END OF THE STREET…MY PHONE AND COMPUTER ARE HACKED INTO…AND THEY HAVE WORN MY CLOTHES IN FRONT OF ME…WHILE I WAS AT MY JOB…THAT I NO LONGER HAVE…HERE THERE ARE TWO FREEMASON LODGES AND ONE LARGE KINGDOM HALL…MY ONE NEIGHBOR IS J.WITNESS…WHO I CAUGHT BURNING BLACK CANDLES ONE TIME…SHE ALSO REPEATS COMMENTS
TO ME…I HOPE YOUR OUT THERE…THIS IS NOT THE WORK OF GOD…BUT THE WORK OF DEVILS.    SHERRY

My reply was as:

I am not sure that what is your history in this theory.

 ”I DO NOT ANSWER E-MAIL..” “MY PHONE AND COMPUTER ARE HACKED INTO…”

If you are afraid of your email being read and monitored, then don’t be afraid, because Internet is like information highway. Like on road and highway, there are traffic police, similarly there must be some monitoring going on by CIA or Law enforcement agencies.

So your information is on safe hand and don’t be afraid.

How you can take some safety steps like anti-virus must be installed/Don’t install unknown software/search on net for some safety steps for using internet.

 “THIS IS NOT THE WORK OF GOD…BUT THE WORK OF DEVILS.”

Be practical it is not the matter of God or Devils. It is medical and possibly security reasons.

 “THE MEDIA REPLAYS THE NEWS…AND, I WAS UNDER ATTACK…AND HAD A REALITY REFORMATION…THIS INVOLVED DRUGS,THAT MADE ME ILL FOR THREE DAYS…”

 That might be very much true. Check for your food intake. It might be drugged. Keep an eye on your servants if you have any. LSD and similar other drugs are used for mind control. One of the effects of LSD is that you think that you are be followed by some body and agencies are following you. Some mind enhancement drugs have similar effects on human mind.

Persons on high profile jobs are also drugged to get maximum output and sometimes they have same effects that you are feeling. So be normal and follow some stress management tips, search on net for more details.

 Some of tips by me:

 

• I suggest you consult some professional who have expertise in security and medical both. This combination is very important to understand the real problem. Some times it is purely medical reasons and some time security and some times mixture of both.
•  Try to create a boundary line b/w real world and imagination. Imagination is a great power and people take drugs to attain them. But a negative imagination can destroy your life. When thinking, go forward with you thinking, visualize the case, issue and then come back to real life with wisdom that you got with this imagination and act in real life.
• Continuous imagination reduces the processing power of mind. So think about some subject and then close the subject with  some conclusions. In this way you can reduce the stress on mind.
• Change environment, change friends and give some time for relaxation.
• Start a self reading about mind control, mind reading and mind feeding and related subjects. It will help to fight back with problem in better way. Secondly read about stress management on net.
• Follow me on Blog related to mind sciences at

http://rationalsolution.wordpress.com

 Best of luck in fighting this Game. Fight hard and aggressively for life.

MemoryZine.com – Practical Memory Institute® (PMI) -Douglas Herrmann

MemoryZine.com is the premiere source for science-based information, products, and services in the field of human memory and cognition.
MemoryZine.com is also the home of the Practical Memory Institute® (PMI) which is responsible for providing content for this site.
MemoryZine.com is a service of Compact Disc Incorporated (CDI). CDI is a publisher of science-based health information and products for individuals and organizations.

Practical Memory Institute® (PMI) is dedicated to providing the latest knowledge about human memory skills and performance. Here, you can follow the latest in memory science. Our self-help programs are designed for normal individuals to improve their memory at home. Our programs have also attracted the interest of caregivers and professionals.
PMI was created during the Decade of the Brain, 1990-2000, and in some ways has been inspired by the growing interest in research into the workings of the brain, especially memory.
PMI Executive Director Douglas Herrmann, Ph.D. and the entire staff welcome and invite you to visit PMI at MemoryZine.com often. PMI produces: the Memory Works self-help programs; the Memory Catalog™ of selected products from around the world; the COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGY® journal; Cognitive Technology Conferences; and other useful information about human memory and cognition.
PMI has information for:
Anyone who wants, or needs, to have a better memory
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Douglas Herrmann, Ph.D., PMI Executive Director and Co-founder, is an internationally known researcher in memory and cognition with over 40 years as a research psychologist and professor. He has published over 90 peer reviewed scientific articles, over 30 chapters in edited books, and over 20 books on memory and cognition, including investigations that focus on age and memory. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, he has served as the Chair of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. He has been an active participant in the development of NIH sponsored, science-based human memory skills products resulting in the innovative Memory Works® CD-ROM series, produced through research funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants. Since 1995, Dr. Herrmann led the development of PMI’s Multi Modal Model® of Memory, which has provided the theoretical basis for PMI’s Memory Works® products. Dr. Herrmann was founding Editor of COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGY®, PMI’s official peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the enhancement of cognitive functioning through the collaboration of basic and applied cognitive research. Dr. Herrmann has chaired the Psychology Departments at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York and at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN. He directed the Collection Procedures Research Laboratory at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and conducted cognitive research at the Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, England, the University of Manchester in Manchester, England, the National Institute of Health and the National Center for Health Statistics. He is known to the public through several textbooks, including Retraining Cognition with Dr. Parente’, and popular press books, including SuperMemory, How To Cure Your Memory Failures, and Improving Memory and Study Skills. Currently, Dr. Herrmann also serves as Chancellor of PMI’s Memory University®.
Reference:
http://www.memoryzine.com/