 So Thank you for your attention that you came here. I welcome you fellow hackers and inventors, visionaries, contemporary thinkers to this talk it's about quantified self. It's something you might be familiar with. It's kind of like self-tracking Kind of like self-hacking, you know seeing the numbers seeing the digital self Recording like some of you might know rescue time. That's what Chris St. Klein Adam is going to talk about shortly later We hear about the special case of I would say self-hacking mind-hacking Possibly quantified self using brain waves to see your digital self your mind mirror But of course you can do more with the brain wave stuff, which I will talk about later So I Hope you enjoy this talk. Please welcome Chris St. Klein Adam from quantified self Germany The first I will talk about quantified self How many of you have heard of the term so please raise your hand if you have so Good some have some don't So I start with introducing it. It's this nice logo, but logos don't really say much so it's about Gathering data about yourself and Using this data to make decisions about your life So there was a German newspaper which titled recently that One of itself or tracking bodily function something that can make you addictive. So it's something really bad Which the news media has to warn you about? So I don't know what that means for you. Maybe it means it's cruel. Maybe it means it's bad. So make your pick but from my perspective It's more something that takes a bit of self-discipline. So It's not like playing farm wall Where you can speak from addiction? so Yes, that's the next thing What do I track? I track a few things This is one of the most important things for me. It's my lung function. I track it with a peak flow meter and Since I track it it goes up because I can use the knowledge I get to the tracking to change my actions. So In a span of roughly five months I improve my lung function by three-fourths So that's a rather significant improvement And you might say Maybe that's all placebo. Maybe I just imagine it and some are uses differently so here's data from a study about how The placebo affects tracking lung function. So they tried an asthma medication and gave it to people and Gave placebo and had a non-intervention control group If they asked them for the subjective improvement There was nearly no difference between Those who get the real treatment and those who get the placebo So If you ask people for the subjective improvement Really people get deluded whether something helps them, but if you start tracking the way I did you suddenly see that you get the same result with a placebo and the non-control group none of the magic control group, but Real drug makes some difference so in this case The Measurement isn't really influenced by placebo. So the idea that you can somehow Not learn something about yourself because you get distracted by placebos and really accurate so The empirical method which is really about learning from data doesn't have to be about Reading somebody else's application of the empirical method, but it can be Doing the empirical work yourself and especially if you use technology to help you that works well so The next thing is to really do experiments and With one person Participant the most important participant for you yourself. So if something works for yourself, it's good and It's not really that important whether it works for everybody as long as you yourself Have an improvement Maybe you aren't even interested whether it's placebo or where the causation is and the improvement is the most important thing So let's take a look at a specific case So this robots Tried to track his cognitive performance with an arithmetic test and measured how much time he took to solve those problems and over time those changed and Then he found he thought about what made the difference between the change and He went back and found that it was eating 30 gram of butter But she changed his diet a bit And after the diet change he suddenly had Was faster. Oh so Then he was faster and he went and told other people about the result and At first He got a bit negative feedback because he was maybe crazy Because butter is supposed to be really bad for you But he had data so the people said maybe There's something But we don't really want to believe him. So Let's try to do it ourselves and do an experiment so they gathered 27 people and put them in three groups One butter group one coconut oil with another fat and there are some results which Suggest that it helps with Alzheimer's so there's some possibility that it could also be good for the brain and another group with Neither butter nor coconut oil and on those 27 people they found that the butter group beats others which Is traditionally significant amount and 5% faster on the mass test so Do I want to all convince you to eat butter because I say so no I don't I want to convince you to Think about ideas and see whether they work and seeing whether something works doesn't have to be about Doing it and then deciding do I feel like it works or do I feel like it doesn't work can be about Getting hard data about whether it works so We now have the technology to track a lot of things and Test things for ourselves. We aren't anymore in a position where we need to believe other people and their results Whether those people Come from academia or whether there are priests we can do empirics ourselves and Being an empirical thinker doesn't have to be any more about Reading about series as other people make Empirical thinking can be about testing stuff for yourself I developed an open source application for tracking cognitive performance But even If you aren't interested in cognitive performance, you can track a lot of other things I had the example from my lung data and Then there are a lot of other Hardware solutions so you can track physical activity with a pedometer You can track sleep with multiple things you can rate yourself and all those things give you heart empirical data Unfortunately at the moment Most of the hardware that you can buy in the open source. Maybe that will change. Hopefully it will change that's one of the reasons We talk here, but Those hardware still useful if you want to do experiments and if you have results and Maybe you want to have results, but don't know how to track you can talk to other people and In Berlin we started last month the first one for itself meet up in Germany in the US there are for a Longer time other quantified self meet-ups and When you are there you can put Say tell the people about your ideas what you found work for you other people can try to replicate it and you aren't anymore Subject to some expert which tells you how to live your life, but you can really See whether something works for you whether it worked for your peers and so together there are 42 meet-ups in the world at the moment and Berlin it's We had our first one this month and in Germany We have now four cities with people who want to meet ups and if you are interested in the topic Here are website addresses where you can Look and find people in your local community to do it and That's basically my message It's really great to track something about yourself. It's really great to improve yourself with it and finally to talk to others about it and find a way to Share your knowledge and improve on the knowledge by seeing whether it works for other people and now we will move on to a specific Open source hardware application for brainwaves Which made a mind is going to talk about So, thank you, mr. Klein Adam, so maybe Let me add one or two things to this Gary Wolf the founder of quantified self he always refers to the microscope So it goes beyond the individual as an individual you can hack yourself you can track yourself You can do all kinds of stuff improve yourself. That's very cool But then there's a part of society and we all basically do this together But he calls it the microscope you have the microscope you look deep into matter And you have the microscope the microscope shows you how things are coming together kind of the emergent properties you know how things are coming together basically the big picture and That's what it is. It's the microscope and the things you can see with it and that basically is the quantified self community also in part and It's about community So there are meetings in major cities around the world including Germany could come to those meetings And when you come to those meetings, it's all about what did you do? How did you do it? And what did you learn? So maybe do one question or something when I'm preparing Q&A things just one question Would be possible The laptop actually turned off. That's fascinating Just when the slideshow ended so I guess someone has a laptop with open office It's amazing, you know this thing has asked five hours. It runs Linux gentle Linux never crashes But you know chaos congress. It's kind of a cool thing. So let's improvise Might all be staged because he's actually the software guy you will hear from him later how all these things really kind of work and Yeah, then there are this crazy interesting cool people called the heralds who have VGA adapters for Steve Jobs visionaries Can I does anybody have an VGA adapter? Does anyone have a question about quantified self, you know? So I think 10 would be enough Crazy crazy shit So let's do Q&A about quantified self What do you think about hello people you can check your email or just use a chance about talk about quantified self What do you mean quantified self? What could this be? What is it for you? possibly most likely Well, I'm sure you have things to do right, you know look up quantified self DE for example quantified self dash DE You look it up and we can talk about it. Hello, or you can sit quietly. I Have a question or comment rather I I found the job on up just like just like you did Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work. It seems to suck majorly Excellent Yeah, five replacements right, but obviously someone is going to get this right at some point And what the job on up is is essentially just a bunch of Sensors attached to your wrist So I thought you guys you should seriously talk to The USB Connect to the people who reversed engineer the audio protocol for connect What about think that power adapters and then and then you can make a open source Implementation of the client obviously for the job on up or even more awesomely you walk into the basement and you talk to the guys that build the Arduino stuff and Hopefully in a year or two. I will have my very own open source Think that sensors think that to my arm and then I can make sure everything I want So I'm please make this for me. I want it Exactly. That's a good point. So There are a lot of sensors which are really cheap and where you can build something with it. So one of the things we built is an EEG which also works on the open source hardware stuff but even if you don't want to build hardware and Smartphones today have a lot of sensors and if you want to have a pedometer Yeah, but it's the centers are in nearly every phone Writing good software which gives good data from it in that heart but it's something that Somebody should do an open source But as always There isn't enough time for everything except when Computer errors are there and we have to fill up time. No, no, no, of course useful time Contextual self-time. It's a brain interface, but I mean, you know Yes, I will do what I must do It's like to dab it up. It doesn't always work computers, but now You feel confident you answer the question. Good. So Let's talk about open BCI I guess you have already aha it's a PDF cool Open BCI brain computer brain buddy Brain bio interface. It's about the biosignals the bio electrical signals of living beings So but it's you know down to a really simple science just EEG and All these other signals and I was going to Yeah, you know, I kind of like to do it with other things So I was going to talk about motivation, but you know to me it's kind of obvious when I was eight I thought you could eventually have some kind of brain motor interface. I called it differently So I'm going to skip the motivation part and refer to applications to applications So like I said, it's really down to earth science. Basically EMG ECG and EEG that's 70 80 100 years of some people do it for longer technology So we have electro meogram. It's basically measuring the pulses that go from the neurons to the muscles We have EEG. It's like a hard thing, you know in hospitals and the EEG and usually it's kind of like You know take some time to prepare and it kind of looks weird EEG medical EEG and basically open BCI combines all those Possible appliances with open hardware with open software into one easy to use package one software framework that basically for the open source community to be used and Possibly provides also open source Biostable social network solution kind of setting up on the GNU net and things like that and possibly plug in for diaspora So you don't want to be putting your brain with data to Facebook But you possibly want to be comparing it with your friends You want to maybe see other friends who have heart rates similar to yours or brain waves Maybe you're looking for an artist. So you can see oh right him is face active. We'll come to that later So EEG is somehow to me the most fascinating because it's about the brain, you know the heart kind of bump bump bump it's like a Like a wave if you look at close edit But then the brain waves are really you can really look at them for a long time. Basically, I've been doing it six years But the basic thing is it's a basically a base frequency. You go from five to fifty Hertz That's usually what they look at higher frequency are kind of Research, you know, they're kind of sometimes when the brain is like really doing something special You can have gamma waves, but usually humans homo sapiens doesn't have them only mutants or someone's so let's look about The normal brain waves we have the delta waves As you can see most people have them in deep sleep that basically means When you're not dreaming when you're like really like really Sleeping or basically shut it shut down completely. You're basically almost no activity. That's not so much interesting Then tether waves become more interesting That's basically when you're dreaming when you have REM sleep You have tether waves So the brain is it's a lowest frequency the brain can go to and still be somewhat conscious as you might have observed in your dreams at least it's possible and Sometimes after in dreams you can get to them in meditation if you do really serious stuff like Zen meditation Dowel meditation you can shut you some people can shut off their brain completely except tether waves But the usual thing you want to have and the beginning is alpha waves They're for relaxation So basically when we try out the system later you can come down to the table or to any German European hackers base There will be workshops there you can try it and basically if you just close your eyes And inhale deeply most people can't resist to generate alpha waves basically relax And that's kind of a way I test my system. You know if you're measuring brain waves You could be measuring alien interference is whatever some kind of thing You probably argue that whatever you are measuring is noise But when I close my eyes and inhale deeply and I generate alpha waves and everything turns off It looks like a good calibration to me. Let's skip all that stuff. There are better waves. That's usually you can read that stuff You know your focus you work so then We have certain technology to influence the mind Basically, there have been all the beats the details you can look it up in a wiki wiki pedia I don't want to bore you with it. It's not that important. They kind of stimulate your mind You know with different frequencies. There are also noise things which are particularly interesting different forms of noise and there's so there's an auditory way basically to all senses to influence your mind and your brainwaves Classical approaches have been done by the hippies or by shamans kind of look into a fire You know, you see something like flakering around it will make you kind of relax or even possibly see some guard beings or basically meditate shut off your frontal cortex Hippies have been doing it. I particularly like it It's just take a turntable make a cardboard box make some holes in it Spin the turntable a certain frequency possibly listen to music you get the other effect added effect of if you look at it at different heights different frequencies That's the classic way of course you can do it in a different way like modern things you can have DMX controllers You can control them of course with APIs Correlated to your brain waves, you know And the first thing I did was like shooting different colors of light at me when I was sleeping or meditating that could be interesting Also, there are appliances like for events, you know parties people have multiple headsets There's like a bubble of orange people here interestingly conversing. There's like a purple purple cloud of people meditating possibly and Then it's a classic approach. You maybe know Mitch Altman the mind machines You combine all this technology the simplest possible mind machine I'm I should say is this is the mind machine from Mitch Altman It basically blinks a little bit makes it from sound and you can you can experience this and you build it yourself In a few minutes. That's really cool. I made another software where you can like really complexity say how this should be and Let's check out that Steve Jobs mouse. Yeah, basically can say, you know, go down. That's that's just for brain wave flexibility Basically, the thing I come go down gradually and wait always with the brain waves You know wait for for the brain to follow you can measure that with the e.g. Later If the brain is following a step go down go down while the brain is following you go down And then this is a particularly crazy thing. It's for brain reflexibility. I have this idea We are all kind of locked to certain I see this in the data actually kind of locked to certain mental states to certain brain waves kind of like Not using our brain just a certain parts of it. This is supposed to be designed to like Widen up, you know the possibility the brain can go to And so you can make those glasses control them with a microcontroller with USB or as I said use DMX lights Then we get to the application. For example, one is neurofeedback. No, it's really don't believe me It's really classical science If you've got like depression or something just go to a doctor who knows a little bit more about modern times He will just send you to a neurofeedback practitioner and you adjust your brain waves You know, it's no big thing if you have depression you're locked in a brain state You get out of it if you imagine have imaginary chronic pain. It's just in your mind It's seriously you go to a doctor and you can change it in four sessions of 15 minutes as certain studies say So I got heavily inspired by that you can change your brain waves Well, let's see how the open source software world thinks about it and there was the open G project I've been doing this for six years, but actually certain people started this like 10 or eight years ago Open EG really pioneers And so that's a slide without images. Let's see what is written there. Yeah, it's actually a big thing How does it work? You know, I'm not like whipping someone, you know all know the path of Pavlovian dogs who generates the liver You can do many things. You can shoot light that you you know, you can you can Have bad smells or this this harmonic sounds. I only go the nobody's false You know, I only go with rewarding So the simple way you continue your mind into any brain wave is simply by measuring the EG's at any given time And because your brain is oscillating always a little bit kind of like wobbling around just a little bit You kind of in an alpha state kind of in a waking state as it appears to be most of you are is still Wobbling around and whatever you go into the right direction. I just reward you basically with an intense imagery You know nature, you know life forms of various shapes Harmonic sounds another way You can do like put sugar in your mouth, but that's kind of I think for rats not for post-modern hackers So I suggest the sound thing, you know, it's kind of really cool if you start to do sound The brain naturally likes harmonic sound and thereby adjust the brain waves to make the sound more harmonic And then depending on how you calibrate the system Basically, you're turning knobs at a brain wave synthesizer with a feedback loop Which affects your mind So it's really that simple if you want you can try it out turn knobs kind of design a new mental state You know certain substances psychonautic things can give you certain brainwaves more So the music beat-hofen or dubstep music can give you certain brainwaves, but you can design states, you know, and simply sewn into them It's classic conditioning. That's kind of an overview of how the hardware works You know, it's really straightforward your silver electrodes because they like lower frequencies You have a noise filter everything except 5 or 50 Hertz. We kind of don't care about at least in my case Then you amplify your analog digital convert You have some kind of computing elements like a microcontroller is kind of cool for it You would be Bluetooth serial port I suggest the Bluetooth way because it's really compatible not like And then you have a TCP network stream, which is really nice because in any programming language You can do two lines or something and they have some kind of Fourier transformation Which used to be impossible on your home computer now You can do it like hundreds of times on your smartphone and see what the parameters look like so the hardware It's really simple nowadays. It's just basically a small integrated circuit Actually, which will appear in your iPhone 5 if you have an experimental version. It contains certain chips It will be built in for the consumer eG market. You just take this device. So there's some hardware It's basically museum, you know historic edition modular eG It's the very popular one started eight years ago. You can sort it yourself It's kind of hands-on you can really see how you're like amplifying base frequencies or brainwaves Then there's monolith eG from German like engineer. It's SMD. It's a lot better quality and now there's open mind And basically it's a Texas instruments chips or there are multiple chips coming out This size just a little larger than the Arduino now chip at Mega chips and they you know modular eG has two channels Only fast for and those chips they have eight or sixteen channels of higher resolution eG They're actually sampling with up to ten thousand times a second, you know and 24 bits Resolution and you can stack them endlessly. So you take one chip you have 16 channels You know, I'm kind of happy with four or six channels and they're like 30 or 50 euros You stick next to them and I don't you know, you have some Bluetooth board And see downstairs and you have a board of this size. That's amplifying your brainwaves or biosignals Just put on a headset like this and basically record your brainwaves when you give him talks or you know certain other things meditating Let's keep all that so the headset is kind of the part that's most Interesting now because the rest is just a chip like I said you touch it somewhere. It works. It sends Bluetooth That's what open BC. I at least make sure of and so you build cool headsets You know, it's like really artistic you can do like diadem headset like a king's crown or you can do like steampunk headset with complex Mechanics and automatic like electrode movings and solar powered Yeah, be creative be creative. I'm looking forward to it What I kind of do is attach a solar charger for a smartphone It has a included lithium battery and it charges even with no regular lights So it's I have really a solar headset that charges all the time from artificial or a real light Has a has a chip on it and you don't even need an antenna You make an S shape you have a full wireless Bluetooth headset with as much electrodes as you like Which really has certain styles so the electrodes. There are many ways to do electrodes I had some on earlier. This is kind of a Fractal flower electrodes. So, you know, might be possible if you have a certain pattern You know, why are you actually mass measuring like charge for millions of neurons accumulating on your head? It has something to do with your electromagnetism, you know Tesla did experiments You you might effectively be having an antenna or something also if you know fairer day cage You can do the contact less so I kind of do the electrodes like an fractal antenna And there should be made of silver or gold if you have that because of the low frequencies And that's kind of like one headset base very basic headset can look like very adjustable Durable and the headset is about like five euros. It's basically like women's hair rings and like a headphone Of course, you can do some techniques headphones. You can put all the stuff inside. It's just basic kits You can do wearable technology So here we have the lily pad some of you are familiar with you can basically completely, you know We creative have certain wearable technology that includes certain biosensors Like I said, you can put six electrodes on the around the heart around the stomach area certain areas Make like a belt or my list thing is like a like a compass like an additional sense It gives small electrical signals the north paw from sense bridge. It gives you like small electrical Stimuli when you go to the north direction. So after a few days, you will just kind of oh north is here I just can feel it, you know different senses you can come up with that stuff That's kind of the transhumanism direction with brain waves. That's also interesting like reading UV light or something That's a little bit too crazy. So that's the commercial devices I cannot check them out, but I rather think they're not really stylish But really stylish most most of them like require certain forms of gel or saline solution And they're more expensive. It's really hard to get the open source to get the raw data They kind of allow you to shoot in games or something But you always have the API and to get the raw data You kind of have to pay like 700 or 1000 euros to get a research license and still it doesn't really work well So just to give you a comparison So then that's how the basic visualization looks like that's kind of how I process a signal visually and it's you know a little bit Chaotic basically your filters average a matrix certain digital signal processing things you've left and right Brain waves displayed here in a Fourier transformation you go from 5 to 50 Hertz and it goes back in time I will show you a video possibly The gentle is booting left and right hemisphere and the other thing is kind of like a metric left and right is going up and down Depending on on your hemisphere So you should see this in action especially if you try this like a little bit in a quiet place After a certain time your brain will kind of be become aware what I'm seeing here what I'm hearing here You know somehow seems to be correlated to something inside me and this is wake up I will wake up an experience you know kind of like lucid dreaming and you are kind of become able to control the lines You know make them go up and down Kind of say oh, I'd like some more purple here And if you're not like really tensed you can do it and basically then change your brain wave So that means if you want to be more creative There are no more days like I don't feel really concentrated You know I can't concentrate have a writing blockade no creativity Just basically look at this visualization for five or ten minutes to you need to creative mode to you need to focus mode Tuning to shut off mode like sleeping problems, you know It's just for homo sapiens, but you don't need to have those things you can do something about it Let's keep all this I might be showing you a video just check out the website You see it in the lower part, you know most of the thing you can just look up at yourself I just wanted to show you things are possible if you kind of interested look it up And we can cooperate every hacker space has a group and you can meet me there So they should signal processing just you know some guys know what it is about Waveflare transformation free transformation sliding window FFTs all these things you can do them and that's interesting Psychologists they never do this and understand they always say you kind of look at the brainwaves for many years And you give kind of get a feeling if this person is schizophrenic or autistic what the fuck you know I mean do some signal processing find out at least certain frequencies Which is really easy possible like in any program language to just say open signal to FFT and visualize and it's three lines of code Why not do it right now anyone have you has laptops well maybe later Then there's the cool thing with clustering and data mining personally like that a lot data by your necks Kind of inspired from nature things like simulated annealing you express data kind of like You know kind of like a mountain range you put in the data as water and you shake it around to shake it around Certain things fall to a place it generates maps like that. It's called an emergent self-organizing map basically it's a Technique to project and dimensional like if you have 20 electrodes you have 20 dimensional data How you're going to like visualize that I'm working on fractal visualizations, but which is really this is crazy stuff You know really down to science. It's emergent self-organizing maps PC a they will cluster and project their data in three-dimensional format Which happens to be the best format the brain can understand you get the feedback loop That's really interesting part Well, that's you don't have to look at this very much, but that's kind of like a software framework. We are suggesting Which could be used for any biosignal you have inputs your network streamers whatever databases clouds If you want you can look at it and help work on it try it out Then I don't want to read that you know applications, you know I'm going to talk hours for it. Look it up read up think about it yourself. I Particularly like the midi sound thing You can of course you can do turntable control your left brain is like logic So it just do mental calculations, you know come up with interesting mental calculations You can solve but are not that easy your left brain will basically become active and I can you can see that in the signal You can turn the pitch up your left your song number one But you're playing faster and slower faster slower then you kind of like be creative think of a beautiful moment, you know from your life and You will have right activity Could be interesting demos are following but then what I like is send this shit to synthesizers analog synthesizers basically governing the left hemisphere It's just doing the rhythm. So you can easily kind of very quickly learn now now now now or like don't Just bring your mind to the outside or in the inside that will make a clear signal in your left hemisphere And in my in my setup it governs when there is a sound Tuck-tuck-tuck-tuck depending on your right hemisphere you get a pitch. So And that's fascinating because you are you're subconsciously creating music, you know, usually you need 10 years to master the Grand Wing piano or to master the Cita or something in your lifetime and Eventually be a come able to like freely improvise on an instrument and then cool things happen Creativity happened composing you have heard about Beethoven things people like that who are who was deaf and still compose And that usually takes a lot of effort with this system. You just kind of generally give a background beat Half-consciously, you know and let your right brain hemisphere Or wherever you put the electrodes kind of do the rest and the brain will like harmonic sounds and the right hemisphere will be creative So you will have I have done this a hundreds of times. It starts like ding-do-ling Watering and eventually it becomes a rhythm eventually after five or ten minutes becomes more harmonic like a sine wave and People who have never played an instrument are just doing drum and bass or classical music or dubstep break lines or synthesizers You can also put multiple headsets into the audience You know, it's kind of stressful for me to people break the headsets could be giving you headsets And then you are the baseline your synth kind of mix it together. You're making live music You know, it's not about the person in front anymore who is spend their whole life and somehow has a talent for a piano This creative thing especially music. I think it's it's obvious Then self-control mental state That also is one of the things that got me into it. It's kind of what meditation is about You just you know go into a mind state that you want to be in be creative be sleeping be dreaming be active be flying around Whatever you want to be you can learn that that shows certain studies do it four times 15 minutes So the feedback you get rewarded your brain goes into it You kind of feel a new muscle in your mind that you will be able to use But the way I do it I kind of visualize like a symbol like a magical symbol like burning with flames You know lightning and then I have an LP anchor if some of you are familiar with it I just visualize a symbol and fall down but be careful about it Sleep induction, that's what I said don't want to be doing it if you're on the stage Lucy dreaming fast learning is fascinating. You know, it's not the topic but look into it Increased leads to increase mental capacity brain wave synchronicity is another cool thing When you start to synchronize your parts of your brain So left and right hemisphere is interesting all the basically mystic meditation traditions tell you you have some kind of third eye It's in the middle of your brain and you're supposed to like synchronize things It's basically the corpus callosum the connection between your both You have actually we have two brains, you know left and right they're communicating and how many connections are between those Every neuron can have 20 connections at least but most humans have like two or three So there's certain potential to have more connections with neurons and that kind of you know People understand web theory and graph theory is significant if all the neurons have like 10 connections instead of three connections It's a holographic, you know consciousness thing you can simply train for that You don't need like some kind of kung fu master who will teach you for 20 years in a cave Just do it with your iPhone or Android phone Well, I'm getting drifted off Just read that stuff, you know Increased brain self-regulation your feedback accelerated learning. So basically fast learning Done some experiments if you want to learn a language you just display images display the words in their original writing and their Protographic writing get them from Wikipedia get them from Google display the words Definitely the iconic images make a sound left and right. Maybe left is German right is English or Japanese or Sanskrit or Basque a particular interesting old Hebrew and Basically bombard your brain. I mean that's a rough word basically expose your brain to all this information And if you're in a learning state the brain will I mean if you're in an alpha state the brain will at least like Uh-huh. What the fuck is this? I tried to make like pattern matching and Then that's the problem if you start going faster and faster like with fast reading or fast learning Usually the brain will at some point shut off. You will you will see this in meditation That's all what meditation is about noticing when when you're not like present anymore Interesting power, you know power Let's laugh so Where was I? Accelerated learning at see the potential at least a little bit. I mean you kind of Show information faster and faster basically reading text seeing images of languages and the brain will shut off and no longer follow But you won't realize so you will try to keep learning you try to keep reading Jumping back jumping back. Everybody knows that you keep reading because in school They told you keep reading at the same way and eventually realize oh, I didn't get anything I have to jump back a page, you know with EG. You simply notice that there's this p 300 signal in the brain You can immediately see in the brain. Ah, the brain is understanding or her You can see this clearly in the brain as its p 300 event correct potential So you speed up the learning but slowly, you know, so the brain won't go into this What is this but will stay in the information? I like information. I like connecting information. That's actually the case and Don't be too fast, you know, I can learn something about this myself. Maybe and you can do fast learning I mean, you know, maybe next year some more talks are just experimental fit, you know The hardware is not the issue the software is not the issue This is really interesting technology. So You can put the electrodes in many places I usually put them on the left and right frontal cortex because I'm kind of in the consciousness, you know Exploring and things like that and so you have logic somehow conscious awareness of logic and conscious reflection of logical It means and conscious awareness of creativity, which I kind of like to train But you could put electrodes if you want to control stuff like five years ago I did like a quadrocaptor quadrocopter control thing You know if your Bluetooth phone or you can have your Bluetooth brain with headset and Basically use left and right hemisphere to make the thing go up or down left and right to channels You can control things in that case you want to use the Motor cortex this is right right on top of the head and basically your whole body your sensory experience is mapped on that part of The brain and especially your hands Your lips but still also your legs are very large area So it's really simple to put an electrode there and I cannot like see if you look like, you know If you like doing Tai Chi I cannot tell you like how perfectly exactly you're moving But I can say something is going on with your hand something is going with your leg and probably most people will be running or walking so You can do that to control things, you know, just stand there like meditating or sitting and Imagine you're like walking running moving your hand and it move in a 3d universe control fighter jets or Quartocopters I like the quadrocopter thing You know kind of make a show out of it with your hand, but it's your mind Well, this look at it later when sir put electrodes you put into the Wernicke's area. It's a speech center I cannot tell you what words you are saying, but I can tell you how long the words are I could you know, you can use it as for control things the visual cortex is interesting in branch work They show you like go or chest patterns very quickly oscillating and look what comes back under in the cortex They also have this basically information flowing through your brain from front to back and if you turn a knob It would turn something in your mind So now the boring part starts, please start checking your email and kind of losing energy What does it mean? You know, where does it go? We all know about industrialized technology What it meant, you know mass producing is not only kings who have certain things not only meditation masters Who can do certain things like everybody kind of can you know have many things there's most law So it will very certainly happen. I've seen it over the last years precision processing power usability and comfort will rise significantly Physical science material cost energy need will decrease. I showed you the hardware. It's just a simple chip SMD a very low power And we have things like internet communication, you know interest your eyes technology It's cool internet communication with open community social group where cloud computing and crowdsourcing are somewhat I think like a motor of evolution will see about it Then there are certain things possible which I haven't implemented completely, but I think are possible It's very abstract. I don't want to explain it It's all about open community at least with open BCI Let's share. Let's collaborate the ideas we have It's just work on the projects have fun possibly build a kid improve it hack the project You know, you know what it's about and let's build a brainwave social network, you know That might be interesting for future things I have a Japanese friend who's been doing this for 40 years actually with the first Mac computer He was analog synthesizers and you know very the tube tube visualizers to have like a brainwave signal And he's like did it for 40 years He's in Japan and I regularly kind of like synchronize my brain waves with this friend over the internet And so why and why not, you know, you can say you don't need a personal computer in your home I think we might be having some fun with brain interfaces in our home at our workplace I mean, it's coming. Anyway, you know and certain medical people probably your your employer They will just say don't use Facebook the limit that they do this and they will say We are measuring your brainwaves and if you're not focussely working you kick you out You know, so be aware of the brainwaves, of course, I'm very aware It's you can do something yourself, you know, kind of like a defense thing, you know, certain people will measure your brainwaves You want to be know what's happening? You can play with those people certain reverse engineering of their techniques and you can basically have this power You know watch TV people are really manipulating your minds. I mean, it's really obvious certain hypnosis NLP things watching TV is kind of, you know, very questionable Using Facebook all day, you know, not consciously like connecting with interesting people by clicking around, you know looking at ads It's kind of the same thing. We're all plucked into the matrix anyway, you know Most people if you look in the trains, why not be conscious about it? Why not do it yourself? Why not hack it? Why not share with your friends what crazy brainwave project you're doing? That's what it's about brainwave social network. I'm working on it. He is working. We are working on it I certainly invite you to try it out sign up or you know contribute code I think, you know, I expect I'm talking here when I'm done, you know, five people have uploaded stuff to github. It would be cool So now I still kind of yeah, I invite the leading software architect the mechanic of the sequence The least software guy to talk a little bit about the software vision while I'm messing around from agenda to laptop And see if I can show you some videos later on Okay, so Okay, so all those like applications that he had up there Boring, you know, we're not gonna worry about that because that's like old technology. So Fullscreen how do I do this? Okay, so the software interface this is where things get fun. So I've got lightning around guys those guys So he needs a pen and paper this guy needs our like hardware and I need a whole world full of programmers So I don't have much But I decided to start thinking about things a bit differently because the world's changing a bit and instead of trying to power out All this code myself What I really have is like all of you guys so I have to figure out how to deal this on an open source way So we need a we need to make a big system So we need an we need an editor with a gooey interface So if you guys are familiar with Steve Jobs, maybe the next presentation video He shows how he makes interfaces those sort of things. I want to make that so you also need a symbolic programming language So what is a symbolic programming language symbolic programming language? It's a language that you can recognize without having to see text and Then you need sequences or routines and then you need an ecosystem of routines That's where you guys come in but we're getting there So browser GUI editor. I figure I can just re-use some Ajax or its components blah blah blah Language these be JavaScript copy script or whatever my future symbolic language and It needs to be in real time So let me just talk about a symbolic programming language. This is something that I want to work on But don't really know how to start. Well, actually, I know exactly how to start but whatever so it needs to be it needs to be able to translate from text to The symbolic language I'll get that second and then back so if you guys saw the other chat on the Cartesian genetic programming This might sound familiar. So each so each sequence is sort of like a set of logical Sequences, right? So using Cartesian's programming or something similar we will be able to optimize these routines But that's in the future. Let's try and get the first part now So what we need to do is we need to remove the separation between syntax making them sequences logic and Make the programs seem sort of like functions and like variables like basically blend variables programs functions and The interface all together So so now think of a sequence. So what is a sequence? So a sequence is Well, let me describe them first. I'll come back here So like let's say you have this is my first design just to give you guys an idea of where I'm going with this I'm trying to do as much research as I possibly can So imagine you have four accesses where each access has positives and negatives and neutral values well in this concept I have four elements and In the fire world. I have definitions. These are packages functions and variables. That's how I can remove all my Whatever's I have conceptual items which are always true in the program never true or undefined behavior These can be defined as sequences and will be sort of like built-in unit tests because the program can be used and the program Inside of the interface using sequences it automatically would build the unit test as you're doing it. That's okay We're getting back there interface is the earth. So we need to have So why is this important because with a brain interface On your logical side. This is where your consciousness is on your left brain But then on your left hand side on your or your right brain you have many subconscious things going on at one time It's like a huge parallel processor Well, this sort of prepares your entire body to run through these sequences Well think about when you're writing learning to ride a bike at first you have to think about it a lot You have to really think okay. I'm gonna put my foot down. I'm gonna do this I'm gonna put that you know, you really think about it, but then later it just becomes like riding a bike so later I anticipate that this will be true because When we build the program where we hook the synthesizers up to our brains At the beginning it doesn't feel very natural But then after a while it becomes like moving on the new muscle and you can modify the sounds of your mind Well programming will become very much the same way and I want to make interesting Experiments where I do lots of drugs and try a program, but that's in the future What I could be I want to really show okay, so you can keep talking Yeah, so let me just finish real quick. Thank you. Cool. So in the ecosystem, I'm gonna need a repository and I'm gonna need to have each sequence or you know Potential part of a program think of it like an IC or a resistor like a capacitor any any Small section. So they have to be they have to be accessible and they have to be able to be I'm not how to call that Called for so that's why every sequence has to go. Sorry. That's why every sequence has to go forwards and backwards So when you're writing so there should be an ecosystem of sequences as well So when you're writing, you know what you would be to you the typical way of writing and somebody has improved that syntax with a bigger thing so that would potentially show up and Then a way to combine these parts with a recognized system of inputs and outputs those sorts of things but then I Don't really have all this very much yet. I want to really show you guys tomorrow I really want to encourage you guys to stop by the table Because I Will likely have well, I will likely have a working system. However, there is one catch The driver for the headset box works on my Linux, but not on my Mac and the driver for the program works on the Mac But now my Linux so let me show anyway Come by tomorrow We need more energy peace guys So the ones that waited will be rewarded by some small videos and you can think of some questions, you know And but I will wanted to show you at least the video how this stuff can look like And think of some Q&A questions See if it's a full HD beamer Yes, wow, that's cool. So you can actually really see that video So this is the old suffer that's kind of you know, I referred to it earlier But that's you kind of see the motion you will see that there are indeed certain Certain changes in your brain waves like that's an alpha wave right here We basically have the tether waves here dreaming waves alpha wave So I might have closed my eyes here or relaxed sometimes you can even see Activity my right hemisphere. That's kind of how it looks like just to give you a quick impression You can make sounds but obviously not after rebooting your system. You never reboot Let's make some images Just quickly go through them Let's kind of give you an impression about it think of some questions. What is the brain interface? Yeah, that's the sound SDK so you can definitely make sound of it look look on the web page Just give you here have seen it you can build the stuff relatively easily people use it It actually works just to give you an impression It can look differently like you really see you are your mind in that stuff You know if you after 10 of 20 minutes, you see certain patterns You never get the same patterns and I could tell you it's friend a or friend B of me as a human But data mining of course also can show you you have certain and that's what you said the programming symbolic language Basically works like this. You have unique unique brain waves the way of that transformation the system finds a hard there We have a certain certain pattern and assigns a symbol to it assigns symbols to it whenever it finds a new pattern that's that's Relatively far away from another pattern it assigns a new symbol and that's a universal projection that's work for System for anything for sounds for programming usually people sit like this meditate look at this That's you can all you can use you can use a tunnel thing. That's kind of cool speed up So I will stop talking you can do Q&A anybody else can say something who has something cool to say about brain interfaces and Go through images Q&A anyone Some Harold will come looking at your website while you're speaking and it seems like There aren't a lot of instructions on how you can go about you know making these headsets or getting these headsets There's the page make a headset and it's kind of visual His pictures it gives an inspiration, you know, I kind of want to make you your own headsets I think mine are very basic I don't show you my advanced transhumanist handsets But I show you the basic ones and kind of think you are smart enough to to invent another way if you see kind of Visually glimpse at how this guy what he takes what he does I'm sure you can come up basically just find a system that holds electrodes You can you know lose welding helmet like in this example put some silver on it You can tighten it and basically hey try this headset on a party. I'm sure you can do better You know, but if you want to know there's a workshop tomorrow starting at 18 or 20 hours in the hard-working area There are workshops in every major European Californian hacker space That's what I'm basically doing in 2012 and you can always approach me show me your headset It's really cool and I can explain more, you know I basically found out I'm giving this talk like two or three days ago So I made this wiki in a few days. You can look at the history. Of course, it's not perfect But if you have questions, you know, but that's kind of a meta question some really serious question about this Okay, there's a question here I'm interested in the more sort of general view you were like presented the future because What you saying is very sort of grassroots make your own Devices and so on so it's sort of easy easy access or easy ish or in principle available for all but I think The discussion we've had so far. I mean like Neuro enhancement Currency of medications say there's been like a debate in the scientific community about The sort of accessibility of that and is this I mean do you see the danger at all? Or do you have any thoughts on the danger tool of this turning into be sort of two-class medicine? that sort of Because it's about common commercialization and accessibility of gadgets also So for example one one program that you could yes So for example one problem that you could easily do is um You'll have it this runs in node So you'll be able to get the JavaScript analog outputs really easily So let's say your friend comes up to you and tells you some really big lie. You're like, yeah, it's cool, bro Why don't you put this headset on? That's it. You could make that in five minutes And they're scientific community. They're doing really serious large double blind studies But then we as hobbyist as hackers we can give inspiration and basically the devices will come anywhere Anyway, you have devices in commercial in the iPhone. They will have this devices That's not the problem commercial devices. He will have them everywhere But at the beginning of such a movement if there are certain collective that reflects this that works on this in an open environment Not looking necessarily for money. You can have significant influence of how these goals exactly So if someone's getting you you can go to a prison and if you want to get out They will check your brain waves and if something is abnormal you will stay in the prison You know as someone is robbing you of your holiest thing in quantified self They will rob you of your body basically or you know in the in your living room in your in your bathroom They will scan if you have smoked you get less bonuses and this will happen any way that we check at your brain waves But if it's an open community be creative about it How else we could use this and then basically shape the the perception in society and to make it not only like Oh brain waves. They're controlling my brain waves, but I am creating my brain waves So we still have time for two important questions. Okay, okay So I have actually two questions one for each so in your talk You said that you could cure a chronic pain in some visual indication where you are please. Ah You said that you could cure a chronic pain in four sessions of 15 minutes each Did you actually do an experiment? Can you somehow elaborate substantiate your claim a brief repeat the last part? If you could elaborate on your your claim that you could cure a chronic pain in four sessions of 15 minutes each Yeah, that's from two in University of Tobingen, but they were using an FMI machine So it's a you know, but the basic concept of neurofeedback. I didn't have any chronic pains But I made other changes to my brain waves But I mean it's just you can look it up University tubing and there if you have chronic pain like a limp A limp has been separated and you feel pain and limp. That's not there. What are you going to do? You're going to do and you will feel back and lie in the fmi machine Look at the fire and try to make the fire less burning Less burning or more burning and this is this intuitive visualization thing like similar to this or like a fractal Multiverse thing twisting and people you just say oh less burning or maybe more fireworks more intense colorful fireworks And your brain will do whatever it does to have this more intense fireworks Which happens to be the negative of your brain a pain center in your brain. We basically Shut down your your pain perception center and also if you correlate to hemisphere two parts of your brain There will be more connections. So it's really I think you can reprogram your neural circuits with this technology If you repeatedly do this, there will be more growth Change your mental patterns basically free yourself. It's mind hacking self-hacking personal development. You might refer to it NLP magic chaos magic Just be whoever you want to be in the authors of the paper What do you have the authors of the paper you're referring to of the University of Tubingen? Who authored the paper? You know, I don't university tubing you can look it up with Google all the things, you know I'm an inventor I don't care about double-blind studies because I've seen that by the self I just telling you if you don't believe me look at me just make it easy to find look on the wiki tomorrow Another question for your colleague You said in the beginning you did an experimental lung function Well, do you remember in the very beginning? We did an experimental lung function. Yes We gave asthma medication to a study group. Could you elaborate a bit on who you did the experiment with? Did you use and did you have supervision by a physician? So there's on the one hand my own data about how I've proved my lung function There's a different study than the other people that I'm not related with so I'm not really I'm That much in detail in this study with the placebo So the basic story is that there are people with asthma and they got asthma medication or placebo which compares to the Medication so they don't know what they get So, um, do you want to know about the thing I did for my own lung function or the study? so, um, what I did myself, so it's More or less complicated. It's about being relaxed and Doing something to relax different parts of my body and Hypnosis so it's A longer story For the details But it's worked Okay, and we have one last question from the internet Yeah, sorry, it's light So sorry the internet demands to know meter what Brand and model are your sunglasses and could you please show us? Some live demo and please source code of the cool programs you would Yeah, you can go to the wiki. There's a link to the github and I've been using certain internal things Which I will be releasing softly, you know, it's brainwave hacking If the first time I connected it wrong trying to make harmony actually make chaos you get intense headaches So this is like a fusion energy. You can really hurt yourself. You can hurt other people I'm slowly releasing things, but you can use brain Bay. That's an open source software and you have my presets for example for this You go to github. I've linked in the wiki. You go to a brainwave filter chain And then you get the things you can use open in the program called brain Bay and you can really do this All I was showing I already did you can do this if you go to the wiki and research a little bit or ask me personally And the first part of the question was about what again? Yes, about the sunglasses. Ah, yeah, it's a freak out, you know freak out Basically coming out. It's like a queer coming out and they have sunglasses with peace hippie symbols And I like them to be a conscious of who I'm making eye contact with who is making eye contact with me because I'm kind of sensitive and know about brainwaves and Probably would like to communicate with you But sometimes choose otherwise and it's called freak out. You can get them on the internet or actually I got this one From a flea market from the mower park or you go to freak out in physics sign They have lots of cool freaky out I think stuff freak out The internet. Thanks you very much