Human Augmentation & Self Guided Evolution
Please join our friends and special guests, David Eagleman and Ed Boyden, for a lively discussion on brain augmentation and longevity
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Human technological progress, in many ways, has been for the purpose of increasing the affordances, types of experiences, and lifespan of the human race. With the advent of new anthropomorphic technologies like our modern AI software systems, we often hear much of the rhetoric being dominated by how people think about a world without people or how to replace people.
We'd like to imagine a much more interesting, hopeful outcome, built for the benefit of the human being.
With the advent of neurotech, longevity protocols, genetic engineering, and other methodologies of human augmentation, we look to explore the future of human-guided evolution.
As these disparate technologies intersect in the near future, our goal is to explore the possibilities of what's to come and to inspire a sense of optimism to create a human-centric future.
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Ed Boyden is a celebrated MIT Neuroscientist and HHMI investigator, as well as Founder of several Neurotech Startups, recipient of Breakthrough Prize, pioneer of optogenetics and expansion microscopy, and studies of brain structure and activity, inventor on over 300 patents, on National Academy of Sciences
David Eagleman is the founder of Neosensory, Stanford neuroscientist, host of an Emmy nominated TV show, and NYT best selling author on brain plasticity, cognitive neuroscience, and perception — fact: scientific advisor for HBO television series Westward
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