Randal Koene - Thoughts on Technology and the Future - Hong Kong

There is a bit of ambient noise (i.e. wind), this can't be helped unless I only shoot in a studio - which will limit content and variance. -Significance of the work at Halcyon Molecular, and DNA sequencing in general. -What I talked about at the H+ Hong Kong conference, and why. -Meta-comments about the topics and conversations that dominated the H+ Hong Kong conference. -The 4 routes to Life-Extension. -The concept of "Stasis as Time-Jumping". -Why replacing neurons in-situ as therapy is a difficult proposition. -Future living, space travel, and trading computational resources and information. -Aspects of "transhumanism" that have appeal, such as open-mindedness and constructive thinking about technology. -The Second Renaissance. -The luxury that we have to strive for ambitious goals, and the possible need to work fast, as those ambitions depend on a potentially fragile infrastructure.


Randal A. Koene is a Dutch neuroscientist and neuroengineer, and co-founder of carboncopies.org, the outreach and roadmapping organization for Advancing Substrate-Independent Minds (ASIM). He is currently directing the Analysis team at the nanotechnology company Halcyon Molecular. Between 2008 and 2010, Koene was Director of the Department of Neuroengineering at Tecnalia, the third largest private research organization in Europe. Koene earned his Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology at McGill University, and his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Information Theory at Delft University of Technology. He is a former Professor at the Center for Memory and Brain of Boston University, and is co-founder of the Neural Engineering Corporation of Massachusetts. Koene established the MindUploading.org website and first proposed the term and specific approach called whole brain emulation, the purpose of which is the technological accomplishment of mind transfer to a different substrate. His professional research objective is the implementation of whole brain emulation: creating the large-scale high-resolution representations and emulations of activity in neuronal circuitry that are needed in patient-specific neuroprostheses. He is a member of the Oxford working group that convened in 2007 to create a first roadmap toward whole brain emulation.

Randal Koene of Tecnalia invented more than ten years ago the expression Whole Brain Emulation (WBE), to describe a process of modeling, and implementing a model of the entire brain, possibly a human brain. In this conversation he describes his project, what is the current status of WBE, and its timeline. He also tells what he'd do if he woke up one day as an emulated brain, and describes the ethical considerations concerning WBE.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Randal Koene
• Thoughts on Technology
• Future
• Hong Kong
• Halcyon Molecular
• DNA
• Genome
• Sequencing
• Carboncopies
• Substrait Independant
• Independance
• Robotics
• Singularity
• Transhumanism

[sd62t833]

great talk....but the wind is distracting.

[TheRationalFuture]

@sd62t833 Avoiding background noise is hard. If I were to choose to only shoot indoors or in studios, this would be limiting, not only would I have less opportunity for content, but the variance of content would be limited. So, with my limited resources, I tradeoff having varied content for perfection, despite the occasional complaint.

[SpunkMaster3000]

Like my userrname....

[SpunkMaster3000]

i like the background music you use. Tasteful....

[atheelogos]

love your vids keep them coming man : )