Melanie Swan discusses the concept of viewing the brain as a decentralized autonomous corporation (DAC) and its implications for blockchain technology. She outlines the potential applications of blockchain in artificial intelligence and human enhancement, emphasizing the importance of friendly AI, blockchain deep-learners, and digital mindfile services. The presentation suggests that blockchain technology can facilitate new forms of information processing and management in both individual and collective intelligence contexts.

1. March 28, 2015
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Melanie Swan
melanie@BlockchainStudies.org
www.BlockchainStudies.org
Blockchain Thinking
The Brain as a DAC
(Decentralized Autonomous Corporation)

2. March 28, 2015
Brain as a DAC 1
About Melanie Swan
 Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies
 Singularity University Instructor, EDGE Contributor
IEET Affiliate Scholar, Blockchain Academic:
 Swan, M. Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy. Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly Media, 2015.
 Swan, M. We Should Consider The Future World As One Of Multi-Species Intelligence. Response to The
Edge Question 2015: What do you think about machines that think? John Brockman, Ed., 2015.
 Swan, M. Cognitive Applications of the Brain as a DAC. Cognitive Science 2015: The Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society: Mind, Technology, and Society, Pasadena CA, July 2015. submitted.
 Swan, M. Philosophy of Big Data: Expanding the Human-Data Relation with Big Data Science Services.
IEEE BigDataService 2015, Redwood City CA, Mar 31-Apr 2, 2015. accepted.
 Swan, M. Blockchain Thinking: The Brain as a DAC (Decentralized Autonomous Corporation). Texas
Bitcoin Conference, Austin TX, March 27-29, 2015. accepted.
 Swan, M. Machine ethics interfaces: An ethics of perception of nanorobot-aided cognition. Journal of
Responsible Innovation. submitted.
Traditional Markets Background New Markets Vision
Source: http://melanieswan.com/publications.htm

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Brain as a DAC
What is the blockchain?
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 A decentralized public transaction ledger
 A currency, finance, economic, smart property system
 An enabler of the M2M/IOT machine economy
 A registry, listing, and management system for all of the
world’s assets, smart property, and itemizable quanta
 A society’s public records repository and legal, health,
and governance system
 A new form of information technology, a decentralized
system of checks and balances, an infrastructure, an
organizing system that is universal and of planetary-scale
Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf

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Future of Diverse Thinking Entities
Autonomous
Car
Smart Contract
DAOs/DACs
Enhanced Human
IOT/M2M
Smartnetworks
Whole Brain
Emulations
Hybrid
Classic Human
Source: http://futurememes.blogspot.com/2015/01/blockchain-thinking-transition-to.html
Neocortical
Column Arrays
Deep-Learning
Clusters
Machine Learning
Algorithms
Simulated
Minds
High-frequency
Trading Networks
Real-time Bidding
Arrays
Brain-computer
Interfaces
Digital Mindfile
Uploads
Artificial Life
Synthetic BiologyDesigned
Life
Cellular
Automata
Supercomputers AI
Agents
Expert Systems
Autonomic
Computing
Natural Language
Processors
Brain Scans
Animals
Personal
Robotics
Smarthome
Networks

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Brain as a DAC
Top 4 Killer Apps: Brain as a DAC
Artificial Intelligence
1. Friendly AI
2. Blockchain Deep-Learners
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 Instantiating thinking as a blockchain process:
input-processing-output
Human Enhancement
3. Blockchain Advocates
4. Digital Mindfile Services
Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf

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App #1: Friendly AI
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Artificial Intelligence
 Digital intelligences running on
consensus-managed
smartnetworks
 Good reputational standing
required to conduct operations
 Resource access, fund-raising,
services, contracts
 Consensus only validates and
records bonafide transactions
from ‘good’ agents
Sources: http://cointelegraph.com/news/113368/blockchain-ai-5-top-reasons-the-blockchain-will-deliver-friendly-ai,
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/swan20141117

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Brain as a DAC
App #2: Blockchain Deep-Learners
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Artificial Intelligence
 Crucial moment for AI: large data
corpora and ‘simple’ machine
learning algorithms
 Narrow AI: Google News, Translate,
Image Recognition
 Broad AI: Genomes, Connectomes
 Large databases of personal
connectomes reveal brain structure
 Blockchain EMR, genome,
connectome file sharing
Sources: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/35179.pdf,
http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6209

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App #3: Blockchain Advocates
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Human Enhancement
 Smart contracts: independent
third-party advocate in
uncertain future time frames
 Sustainability plan
 Wikipedia of the future:
blockchain-based oracle
lookup services
“You are running on the current
standard, Windows 36 on a Quantum
Itanium 3” - smart contract valet
Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf

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App #4: Digital Mindfile Services
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Human Enhancement
 Digital Mindfile Uploads
 ‘Digital you’ services: LifeNaut, CyBeRev
 Brain scan, personal connectome
 Instantiate your mindfile as a DAC
 Personal Thinking Chains
 Life-logging, QS biometric datastore
 Chain-based Memory, Ideas, Identity
 Mindsim chains
 Like digital health sims (Entelos)
Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf

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Brain as a DAC
Thinking: Input-Processing-Output
 Critical blockchain functionality
 Tracking, universal real-time on-demand
access, data quality validation, historical
ledger, network effect, dynamic optimization
 Memory: modular and manipulable
 Neural Turing Machines: memory as machine
learning network add-on
 Neuroscience: accentuation and blocking
 Storage
 Distributed, on-chain pointers, swappable
 File-Serving
 Github/IPFS serving, versioning, soft-hashing
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Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf

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Brain as a DAC
Thinking: Input-Processing-Output
 Self-Mining Ecologies
 Smarthome IOT networks, DAC brains
 Administrative reciprocal mining
 Proof of Intelligence
 Consensus mechanism for smartnetwork
operations not transaction recording
 Demonstrate proof of ability to participate
 Ideacoin, Mindcoin
 Demurrage Redistribution
 Potentiation and Ideas as currency
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Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf

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Brain as a DAC
Thinking: Input-Processing-Output
 Actions, ideas, feedback loops, utility
functions, subjectivation possibilities
 Programmable Utility Functions
 Complexity math (Eigen values, nearest
neighbors, coefficients) to instantiate the
qualitative and the quantitative
 Literacy Chains, Maslow Contracts,
Actualization Chains
 Extend our capacity to become ‘more’ of
who we are and can be more quickly
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Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf

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Conclusions
 Blockchains are a new form of
information technology that might have
many important future applications
 Thinking as a blockchain process
 AI: Friendly AI, Blockchain Deep-Learners
 Human Enhancement: Blockchain
Advocates, Digital Mindfile Services
 Blockchain thinking applications for the
immediate progress of intelligence and
longer-term transition to digital societies
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Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf

14. March 28, 2015
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Melanie Swan
melanie@BlockchainStudies.org
www.BlockchainStudies.org
The Brain as a DAC
(Decentralized Autonomous Corporation)
Thank You! Questions?