Heartwarming Story
When I was 19 I was trying to figure out what to study in college, and I went to the Extro 4 conference to find out what other transhumanists did professionally.
When I was there I talked to Anders Sandberg, who told me about computational neuroscience. I remember thinking "Brains and Computers... Awesome!"
And so I went and got a BS in Neuroscience and a MS in Computational Biology.
Almost a full decade after the conversation at Extro 4 (and I hadn't interacted with him since then) I got an e mail from Anders asking me to speak at their Whole Brain Emulation Workshop, to help build a research roadmap for uploading.
ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/fhibrainemu/
I was an 'expert in brain-scanning technology'.
Heartwarming Story
When I was 19 I was trying to figure out what to study in college, and I went to the Extro 4 conference to find out what other transhumanists did professionally.
When I was there I talked to Anders Sandberg, who told me about computational neuroscience. I remember thinking "Brains and Computers... Awesome!"
And so I went and got a BS in Neuroscience and a MS in Computational Biology.
Almost a full decade after the conversation at Extro 4 (and I hadn't interacted with him since then) I got an e mail from Anders asking me to speak at their Whole Brain Emulation Workshop, to help build a research roadmap for uploading.
ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/fhibrainemu/
I was an 'expert in brain-scanning technology'.