‘Mind uploading’ featured in academic journal special issue for first time (Credit: stock image) The Special Issue on Mind Uploading (Vol. 4, issue 1, June 2012) of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness, just released, “constitutes a significant milestone in the history of mind uploading research: the first-ever collection of scientific and philosophical papers on the theme of mind uploading,” as Ben Goertzel and Matthew Ikle’ note in the Introduction to this issue. “Mind uploading” is an informal term that refers to transferring the mental contents from a human brain into a different substrate, such as a digital, analog, or quantum computer. It’s also known as “whole brain emulation” and “substrate-independent minds.” Serious mind uploading researchers have emerged recently, taking this seemingly science-fictional notion seriously and pursuing it via experimental and theoretical research programs, Goertzel and Ilke’ note. For example, Neuroscientist Randal A. Introduction Ben Goertzel And Matthew Ikle’ Digital Immortality: Self Or 0010110?
Karl H. Pribram Karl H. Pribram (born February 25, 1919 in Vienna)[1] is a professor at Georgetown University, in the United States, and an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and distinguished professor at Radford University.[1] Board-certified as a neurosurgeon, Pribram did pioneering work on the definition of the limbic system, the relationship of the frontal cortex to the limbic system, the sensory-specific "association" cortex of the parietal and temporal lobes, and the classical motor cortex of the human brain. He worked with Karl Lashley at the Yerkes Primate Center of which he was to become director later. He was professor at Yale University for ten years and at Stanford University for thirty years. Holonomic model[edit] Pribram's holonomic model of brain processing is described in his 1991 "Brain and Perception", which contains the extension of his work with David Bohm. Other contributions[edit] Bibliography[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
David Bohm David Joseph Bohm FRS[1] (20 December 1917 – 27 October 1992) was an American theoretical physicist who contributed innovative and unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, philosophy of mind, and neuropsychology. He is widely considered to be one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century.[2] Bohm advanced the view that the old Cartesian model of reality (that there were two interacting kinds of substance - mental and physical) was limited, in the light of developments in quantum physics. Bohm warned of the dangers of rampant reason and technology, advocating instead the need for genuine supportive dialogue which he claimed could broaden and unify conflicting and troublesome divisions in the social world. Biography[edit] Youth and college[edit] Bohm was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States, to a Hungarian Jewish immigrant father and a Lithuanian Jewish mother. Work and doctorate[edit] Manhattan Project contributions[edit] Brazil years[edit] In Bohm's view:
Brainwave Entrainment to External Rhythmic Stimuli: Interdisciplinary Research and Clinical Perspectives Purpose This symposium will engage experts in an interdisciplinary dialogue on the hypothesis that brainwaves entrain to rhythmic auditory stimuli, a phenomenon known as auditory driving. Brainwave entrainment is used here in the specific sense of frequency-following to describe the way brainwaves modulate in tempo or frequency to gradually match the frequency of a rhythmic stimulus in the environment. Support for this hypothesis will come from lab research on auditory driving, photic driving, phenomenological fieldwork, and existing clinical applications of this research. A better understanding of auditory driving may have widespread implications. New insights may extend to the fields of musicology and music cognition regarding the study of human reactions to groove and tempo. The fields of anthropology, religious studies, and ethnomusicology may gain potential insights into the widespread use of rhythmic, repetitive music in religious ritual. Registration
Brainwave training boosts brain network for cognitive control Topographic plots of mean EEG amplitude change during feedback (relative to rest). Upper and lower panels represent NFB and SHAM groups, with different EEG bandwidthsfeatured from left to right. Dark red and dark blue colors indicate statistically significant positive and negative changes respectively. (Credit: Tomas Ros et al./NeuroImage) Researchers at University of Western Ontario and the Lawson Health Research Institute have found that functional changes within a key brain network occur directly after a 30-minute session of noninvasive, neurofeedback training. Background Dysfunction of this cognitive-control network has previously been implicated in a range of brain disorders including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. During neurofeedback, users learn to control their own brain activity with the help of a brain-sensing device. Neurofeedback experiment results Senior author Dr.