Neuroweb Roadmap: Enacting our Transhumanist Future

Transhumanist Visions 2.0 Piedmont, 1 March 2014

Pavel Luksha, PhDGlobal NeuroWeb Foresight InitiativeRF Group / SKOLKOVO School of Business

Neuroweb technologies have been one of the earliest technological dreams …

Live forever Communicate by thought

Control things by mind Use invisible helpers

… but it is now that the technology makes this dream feasible

Non-invasive BBI demonstration, University of Washington

Where will the road of neuroscience will lead us?

Next gen prosthetics

Remote control of robots

BBI communication

Brain mapping initiatives

Transhumanist Vision 1.0: ‘Superabled’ augmented humans

Super-strong Super-fast

Super-smart Super-healthy

Transhumanist Vision 1.0: Shared & synthesized experiences

Ultra-fast learning Sensoriums

Neuro-dreamingTransfer of body-mind states

Transhumanist Vision 1.0: Expanding realm of consciousness

From speaking with pets …

… to Uplift

Transhumanist Vision 1.0: Digital immortality

Digital copiesof mental functions Mind-body

detachment:uploaded/downloadedconsciousness

Digital copiesof memories & experiences

Transhumanist Vision 2.0: Transition to collective level

It’s not AI (Kurzweil)

It’s not augmented individuals (Vinge)

It’s augmented humanity,trans-social collective mind (Turchin / Josylyn / Heylighen)

Transhumanist Vision 2.0: Neo-tribesCoping with increasing complexity through collective thought & action, helping overcome ‘trauma of isolation’

Implying not ‘death of individuality’ but manifestation of maximal personal ability in environments of shared meaning & action

Transhumanist Vision 2.0: ‘Psychozoic Era’ Collective minds & bodies to ‘mind forests’

Post verbal: people & IoT

as nodes of Global Brain

Post personal:shared bodies & minds

Post technical:natural merger of minds, bodies & machines

Post cultural:new ethics &

new meanings of (co)existence

Digital enlightenment?

Transhumanist Vision 2.0: Transition becomes a pressing need

NOW

Transition through formation of collective consciousness that is able to handle growing world’s complexity

‘Cyberpunk’ is not sustainable: increased complexity of socio-technical systems unmatched by regulating & goal-setting systems

Rolling to the past: collapse of complex society will come at tremendous cost of billions of lives

2013 2025 2040

Main crises of 2010-40 are endogenous, and their magnitude

is such that we either find new forms to handle the increasing

complexity or fail as a civilization and (possibly) as a species

Big trends that lead to NeuroWeb: challenges of complexity

Emergence of NeuroWeb: around 2025-30

Naturalization of technologies

Mind & body amplification

Technosphere ‘alive’ / ‘conscious’

Network culture

seamless interfaces between natural features of mind&body & technologies

prosthetics, cyberbodies, artificial senses,mind augmentation, AI exocortex

IoT ‘smart ambience’, AI in management & ed,artificial agents mirror & replace mental functions

collective, horizontal, complexity-oriented, emergence-based etc.

Key interfaces of NeuroWeb

Internet of Humans

Internet of Artificial Agents

Internet of Things

BBI: direct human-human & human-animal communications

AA that imitate and support individual &

collective minds

Interfaces between natural minds and

exocortex

Interfaces between natural or hybrid minds & artificial body organs

Artificial organs of individual & collective bodies,

(sensors, manipulators, cyber-bodies & robotics)

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Three key elements of the Roadmap

Networks that enable transfer of neural dataHigh-precision neural interfacesQuantum computersSemantic technologies in Internet & AI

HARDWARE

MAPS OF BRAIN, MAPS OF MIND

PROTOCOLS: PSYCHOTECHNIQUES

& COLLECTIVITY

Generic brain emulation to real-time individual brain emulation‘Blue Mind’ project & ‘universal language of mind’ (mental data transfer protocols)

Ultrafast learningProductive body-mind statesProtocols that control collective intelligence& group consciousness processes

Before NeuroWeb, there is Biometry-Web

Biometry-web: Internet communication that employs intensive use of various biometry related data

from wearables, eye trackers, body motion & facial expression recognition etc.

Neuroweb: Internet communication employs neural system readings

alongside biometry data

Biometry reading [AKA Quantified Self] (for control, learning etc.): wearables (GSR, myogram, pulse, temp, etc.), non-

invasive neurointerfaces, eye trackers, body motion scan etc

High-res neurointerface readings

Biometry meta-language: complex pattern recognition for multi-dimensional space of body-and-mind states (presented

by combinations of indicators), supported by BigLiveData

Re-mapping of mult-dim body-mind state space

as neural patterns

Biometry control: biofeedback training to help master the variety of body-mind states + psycho-techniques that allow fast

switching between these states.

Biofeedback training & techniques for neural pattern

activation

Artificial agents that mirror & support complex mental activities controlled with biometry

Artificial agent-based exocortex

Potentially, every area of human life will be affected: NeuroWeb is next ICT

• Education• Entertainment• Healthcare &

Wellness• Social interaction• Public art• Working with

environment

• Production & logistics• Design & R&D• Management &

governance• Security & Defense• Urban living: home

ambience, transportation, city infrastructure

Our current initiatives

Global NeuroWeb Foresight

Roadmap by Russian NeuroWeb group: late 2012 & 2013Global roadmap: October 2014International NeuroWeb Council: 2015 and onwards

NeuroWeb Manifesto Essays

NeuroWeb MSc program

Inter-University program in Russia from 2015Future Biotech (interdisciplinary international school in Europe): 2015 special theme

Collection of invited essays on themes raised by NeuroWeb Manifesto: 2014Poly-logue format to become community-based process

Ongoing R&DNumber of projects (our own focus is on collective intelligence methods and CI enhancement by BCI / biometry with biofeedback)

Invitation to act

1. Provide feedback on NeuroWeb ‘map of the future’ 2. Participate in the International Foresight aimed to create the

Global NeuroWeb Roadmap in 20143. Join the International NeuroWeb Council or Working Groups

aimed to coordinate research efforts that work towards creation of NeuroWeb technologies (including the support of international R&D cooperation)

4. Organize events that help promote NeuroWeb concepts & cause

5. Collaborate with Group or Council members on specific research / application projects that can help advance NeuroWeb, including the design & hosting of educational programs that help build human capacity for NeuroWeb

Global NeuroWeb Foresight: connect with us

Website of the Initiative (and the Roadmap):

www.globalneuroweb.org

FB Group: ` GlobalNeuroWeb

Contact person: Pavel Lukshapavel.luksha@gmail.com+1 347 403 24 58