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Neurotech
Imagine enhancing your cognition or having treatments for mental health diseases.
Neurotechnology offers the possibility of enhancing brain function and treating neurological disorders. By using advanced tools and devices, it can improve our cognitive abilities and mental health.
Learn all about neurotech under "Intro," understand potential risks under "Risks," discover the most hopeful scenarios under "Hope," and find out how to get involved under "Action."
- TheNeurotech - Website. An overview of the neurotechnology domain.
- Neurotech Group, 2023 Whole Brain Emulation for AI Safety Workshop - Foresight Institute. Application-based seminar and workshop group with recordings published on Youtube.
- Lessons - Website. A step-by-step guide into BCIs.
- BCI community - Website. Link list for BCI explainers and labs.
- Mind-uploading - Kurzgesagt. Explainer video on mind-uploading.
- Roadmap to WBE - Anders Sandberg, Nick Bostrom. Oldie but goldie on steps required toward Whole Brain Emulation.
- Whole Brain Emulation - LessWrong. A primer on Whole Brain Emulations.
- Minduploading.org - FAQ and articles on mind-uploading.
- Digital People FAQ - Holden Karnofsky. An FAQ that includes societal questions.
- Neuralink: The Brain’s Magical Future - Tim Urban. An overview of Neuralink’s likely plans for Brain Computer Interfaces.
- Challenges for Brain Emulation- Alice Parker, Rick Cattell. Focuses on the technical challenges for building brain emulations.
- A Taxonomy and Metaphysics of Mind-Uploading - Keith Wiley. Detailed book on the foundations for mind-uploading with multiple helpful illustrations.
- Mind-Uploading - A Philosophical Analysis - David Chalmers. A philosophical exploration of questions regarding the consciousness of mind-uploads.
- Intelligence: Human, AI, Hybrids - Randal Koene, David Eagleman, Robert McIntyre, Nell Watson. Foresight Vision Weekend panel on potential future mind architectures.
- Coalescing Minds: Group mind-related Uploading Scenarios- Kaj Sotjala. On the possibility of group minds emerging from WBEs.
- From Brain Preservation to Reconstruction - Carboncopies’ workshop videos.
- Engineering Serendipity: Solving Scientific Problems in the 21st Century - Ed Boyden. Near-term progress in neurotechnology and mapping the brain.
- Whole Brain Emulation and the Evolution of Superorganisms – Carl Shulman. Discusses the potential development of intelligence via human brain emaulation, and theorizes their emergence could present both risks to human values and potential solutions to coordination problems.
- Ethics of Brain Emulations, Is Brain Emulation Dangerous? - Anders Sandberg, Peter Eckersley. Discusses ethical challenges around WBEs.
- Criticisms of WBE - David Matthewman. Discusses risks associated with WBEs.
- Could we Use Untrustworthy WBE’s to Make Trustworthy Ones? - Carl Schulman. Focuses on safety and security considerations of WBEs.
- A New X-Risk Factor: Brain Computer Interfaces - Jack. On potentially catastrophic implications of BCIs regarding totalitarianism and information security.
- Sharing the World With Digital Minds - Nick Bostrom, Carl Schulman. On how current human intuitions are insufficient for living in a world with digital minds.
- Cognitive Enhancement: Methods, Ethics, Regulatory Challenges - Anders Sandberg, Nick Bostrom. A primer on the main societal challenges around cognitive enhancement.
- Cause Area: Differential Neurotechnology Development - EA Forum. Argues that neurotechnology is significantly undervalued as EA cause area given its potential implications and opportunities for differential technology development.
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- Age of Em, Is Forgotten Party Death? - Robin Hanson. On the economics of a world populated by human-brain emulations.
- What Brain Computer Interfaces Could Mean for the Future of Work - Alexandre Gonfalonieri. A business-focused outlook of the potential of BCIs.
- BestHope - Future Strategist. BCI-focused podcast episode.
- Permutation City - Greg Egan. On long-term dynamics in a human upload-defined future.
- Fun Theory - Eliezer Yudkowsky. On why a future defined by advanced neurotechnology does not have to be boring.
- The Ultimate Interface: Your Brain - Ramez Naam. On the promises of brain machine interfaces.
- Embodiment in Whole Brain Emulation and it’s Implications for Death Anxiety - Charl Linssen, Pieter Lemmens. Explores implications of WBEs for overcoming existential angst.
- Whole Brain Emulation as Platform for AGI Safety - Anna Salamon, Carl Schulman. Focuses on AI safety implications of WBEs.
- Neurotech Tree - Foresight Institute. Technology tree toward BCIs.
Nanotech
- Age of Em, Is Forgotten Party Death? - Robin Hanson. On the economics of a world populated by human-brain emulations.
- What Brain Computer Interfaces Could Mean for the Future of Work - Alexandre Gonfalonieri. A business-focused outlook of the potential of BCIs.
- BestHope - Future Strategist. BCI-focused podcast episode.
- Permutation City - Greg Egan. On long-term dynamics in a human upload-defined future.
- Fun Theory - Eliezer Yudkowsky. On why a future defined by advanced neurotechnology does not have to be boring.
- The Ultimate Interface: Your Brain - Ramez Naam. On the promises of brain machine interfaces.
- Embodiment in Whole Brain Emulation and it’s Implications for Death Anxiety - Charl Linssen, Pieter Lemmens. Explores implications of WBEs for overcoming existential angst.
- Whole Brain Emulation as Platform for AGI Safety - Anna Salamon, Carl Schulman. Focuses on AI safety implications of WBEs.
- Neurotech Tree - Foresight Institute. Technology tree toward BCIs.
Neurotech
- Nectome - Our mission is to preserve your brain well enough to keep all its memories intact.
- Brain Preservation Foundation - A nonprofit research organization with the mission to promote scientific research and services development of whole brain preservation for long-term static storage.
- Kernel - At Kernel, our primary aim is to develop technologies to understand and treat neurological diseases in new and exciting ways.
- Neuralink - Neuralink is developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.
- Carboncopies - Promoting R&D for Whole Brain Emulations.
- BRAIN Initiative - Produce a new dynamic picture of the brain that, for the first time, shows how individual cells and complex neural circuits interact.
- Human Connectome Project - Aims to provide an unparalleled compilation of neural data and an interface to graphically navigate this data.
- NeoSensory - Condenses decades of neuroscience research into a sleek wristband to deliver hearing solutions that are brand new, simple, and backed by science.
- OpenWater - Working on next generation Brain Computer Interfaces.
- Blackrock Neurotech - Blackrock Microsystems mission is to provide innovative tools and neurotech expertise to translate technology into novel, implantable clinical solutions that improve human lives.
- BCI Society - The purpose of the BCI Society is “to foster research leading to technologies that enable people to interact with the world through brain signals.”
- NeurotechX - A non-profit organization whose mission is to facilitate the advancement of neurotechnology by providing key resources and learning opportunities, and by being leaders in local and worldwide technological initiatives.
- OpenBCI - Creates open-source tools for biosensing and neuroscience.
- Comparison of Artificial Brain Projects - Dated overview of WBE projects.