​DETAILS ➡️:

​• Speakers: Prof. William Hahn (MPCR/Center for Complex Systems), Prof. Elan Barenholtz (MPCR/Center for Complex Systems), Andrés Gómez-Emilsson (Qualia Research Institute), Rachel St. Clair PhD (Center for Complex Systems/ServaMind), Addy Cha (Ekkolapto).

​• Food and Drinks provided for the day!

​Topics ⭐️:

​• Exclusive overview of Ekkolapto's launching experiment on Biological Prompt Engineering: Can we train or condition the body to "memorize" the effects/phenomenology of caffeine so we no longer have to consume it?

​• Interpreting the scientific history of Pavlovian conditioning, psychosomatic conditions, hypnosis, placebo/nocebo, and method acting through the lens of modern cognitive science and information theory–and how we can use this perspective to invent new methods for safely modifying physiology and cognition.

​• Follow Dr. Hahn's Work: YouTube, Substack, X.

​• Follow Dr. Barenholtz' Work: X, Substack, YouTube.

​​​​​• Hosted by Addy (Founder @ Ekkolapto.org, O'Shaughnessy Ventures 2025 Grantee).

​• Previous hackathons, salons, podcasts, and dinners at MIT, UT Austin, FAU, Harvard, Augmentation Lab, Frontier Tower in SF, DC/Maryland, NYC, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo.​​​

​SCHEDULE 👀:

​• 2PM to 2:15PM: Foreword by Augmentation Lab’s Dünya Baradari

​• 2:15PM to 3PM: The Software of Language and Memory | Rachel St. Clair, PhD

​• 3PM to 3:30PM: Are World Models and Memory Real + Non-Verbal Prompting? | Keynote by Dr. Elan Barenholtz and Dr. Will Hahn

​• 3:30PM to 4PM: Audience Q&A w/ Elan Barenholtz and William Hahn

​• 4PM to 4:45PM: Meditation as a Biological Prompt for Psychedelic Effects | Andrés Gómez-Emilsson (QRI) Keynote

​• 4:45 to 5:15PM: Andrés Gómez-Emilsson (QRI) Audience Q&A

​• 5:15PM to 5:45PM: [Live Demo] Enhancing Vision by Training the Brain | Addy Cha

​• 6PM to 6:30PM: Can we train the body to memorize and store the effects of substances and pharmaceuticals so we no longer need to consume them? | Keynote by Addy Cha

​• 6:30PM to 7PM: Audience Q/A + Salon Discussion w/ Addy

​• 7PM to 8PM: Networking + Open Discussions

​​PREVIOUS EVENTS 📸:

​• 2024 Longevity & Unconventional Computing Research Hackathon at MIT Media Lab, featuring Stephen Wolfram, David Sinclair, Curt Jaimungal, and more: Watch on YouTube

​​​​​​• Past Polymath Salons and discussions are uploaded for you to watch on the Ekkolápto channel: /ekkolapto3

​• Recent Polymath Salon at UT Austin with Professor Scott Aaronson on the Philosophy of Computational Complexity: Watch on YouTube

​• Recent Polymath Salon at University of Toronto with Michael Levin, Andrés Gómez Emilsson, and Elan Barenholtz on the Binding Problem and Platonic Spaces: Watch on YouTube