EAGLEMAN, David, Transformative Tech, Oct 14, 2016
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Friday, Oct 14, 2016 at Sofia University (ITP) at Transtech.
This was a panel with David Eagleman at Transformative Tech conf;</p>
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fireside chat...</p>
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Nichol Bradford introduces him...</p>
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The Brain on PBS...</p>
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shows video of Eaglemen</p>
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how you shape your brain and vice versa...</p>
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past 20 years... 3 lbs of jello like material</p>
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100B neurons he says...</p>
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David himself is a baseball player...</p>
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take out half your brain and it still works...</p>
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something unexpected...</p>
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shows a boy shuffling cups... lightning fast...</p>
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works in progress... from cradle to grave...</p>
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Nichol saw his TED talk...</p>
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my goodness..she thought... the UMWELT...</p>
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he runs a neurosci lab...</p>
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sensory substitution...</p>
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use an unusual sensory channel...</p>
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silent and dark in skull... just electric signals...</p>
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all brains knows is spikes coming in...</p>
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get info to brain in other ways...</p>
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Nature Paul Bach y Rita...</p>
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blind people...</p>
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solenoids and poke blind people into the back with a vest with lights on it that are twinkling...</p>
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sonic feed... cacophany at first but then can learn to navigate with it</p>
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Tongue with camera feed. feels like poprocks on your tongue...</p>
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can use it to throw ball into a basket...</p>
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totally deaf ... we built a wearable that captures sound...</p>
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break it into frequencies and use for stim...</p>
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he is wearing the vest... and he speaks to his cellphone...</p>
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takes off his shirt....we see twinkling lights on his abdomen as she speaks...</p>
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stock market data, weather data into another sens channel.</p>
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Qualia... why do they feel so different... the structure of the data...</p>
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his suspicion...</p>
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he thinks we can feed standard data into abdomen and get another quale...</p>
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Nichol.... want to incr my self awareness...</p>
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undnerstand self thru meditatiion...</p>
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want to deepen the 2 pillars... (of ? communic with others and ourself)</p>
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microbiome... I cannot access that... but say want to consc access the state of it...</p>
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would it be useful... who knows...
how abt accessing someone else?</p>
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take your states and transmit to me (despite your social mask)</p>
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picking up insight thru voice...</p>
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how about things from other peoples vocals...</p>
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feed in anything into the vest...</p>
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eg your emotional state (happy, anger)</p>
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this would be the death for couples... NIchol jokes...</p>
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we'd love this for our company... someone said...</p>
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could be..." aw... poor fred is totally stressout (in company presentation)"</p>
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popularize neurosci...</p>
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criminal justice impact of popular understanding of neurosci...</p>
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Know thyself... (the Greeks)</p>
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Incognito... a few years ago...</p>
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so much stuff under the hood that dwells inside us and that is so influential...</p>
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Pink Floyd.. someones in my head, but it's not me.</p>
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how do we make decisons...</p>
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he says many difft NNs... and its like a parlay (parliament) to steer the ship of state...</p>
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warm chocolate chip cookies... bad for you;</p>
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Ulysses Contract... Odysseus...</p>
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Isle of the Sirens...</p>
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crashes into the rocks...</p>
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lashed himself to the mast and put beeswax in their ears...</p>
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he made a contract with the future Ulysses... cuz he knew that
he would behave badly when the Sirens were whispering to him.</p>
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can st up these Ulysses Contracts...</p>
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started so many ventures...</p>
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we have sci and we have entrepreneurs...</p>
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tell us abt your companies...</p>
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one venture is the VEST.. varous form factors... open API to try stuff..</p>
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with pilots... feel the whole plane..</p>
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know the normal pattern...</p>
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prosthetics.. NeoSensory...</p>
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Brain Check... use a tablet..</p>
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play simple games...</p>
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cognition, perception, decision making...</p>
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have you been concussed...</p>
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dementia... cognitive tracking to look for deterioration...</p>
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once you're demented it's too late... want to catch it early...</p>
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3rd company software play... he directs Science and the Law...</p>
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v inefficient justice...</p>
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time perception (area of research)</p>
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schizophrenia... time perception problem</p>
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if lights turns on BEFORE you press button, then you say... that's NOT me...</p>
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credit misattribution... they make another explanation...</p>
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you generate the voice and the timing is wrong... then you attribute it to someone else...</p>
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opens the door to new rehab strategies...</p>
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Nic: what are you most excited about in neurosci...</p>
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DE: EGG stinks. using it is like....</p>
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hear crack of bat and try to figure out what baseball is all about...</p>
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fMRI... see voxels... 2 mm on a side... way too big...</p>
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really crude...</p>
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want to listen to tens of thousand of neurons... that's</p>
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<b>KERNEL another new company... </b>he's an advisor...</p>
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how to read and write out many billions of neurons... this is a ten year play...</p>
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Ramez Naam... read/write...</p>
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experience other people... what's it like to be a dolphin? DE says NO!</p>
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DE we're only picking up on a tiny bit...</p>
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they're echolocation does not mean they're picking it all up...</p>
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eg if you're tick.. then you focus on body odor and temperature...</p>
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bat or dolphin compression waves..</p>
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the UMWELT surrounding world...</p>
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we see < 1 ten trillionth of the light that's out there...</p>
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just difft freqs...</p>
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tiny window...</p>
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Q about empaths and reading other people...</p>
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A he does not believe in telepathy etc.</p>
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he says.. some people are really good at reading other people... what </p>
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<b>if I'm a carpenter I notice the joists</b>...</p>
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Q how we do decision making</p>
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A all these drives that are fighting it out...</p>
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helps to know that that's what's happening...</p>
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I'm gonna screw it up so I can't do the wrong thing...</p>
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<b>Incognito is his book... </b>wrote abt it... the Ullyses Contract.</p>
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Q about the SPINE...</p>
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decerebrate animals...</p>
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so easy to get focused on the brain..</p>
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but we are somatic... says the audience person...</p>
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A yes right! cat can walk on a treadmill...</p>
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cat walk is stored in spine...</p>
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but the densest repres of you is in your brain...</p>
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densest repr of who you are...</p>
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tiny damage of the brain... can change you profoundly..
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