Presentation of NeuroWeb Roadmap for Transhumanist Visions 2.0 Conference

1. Neuroweb Roadmap:
Enacting our
Transhumanist Future
Transhumanist Visions 2.0
Piedmont, 1 March 2014
Pavel Luksha, PhD
Global NeuroWeb Foresight Initiative
RF Group / SKOLKOVO School of Business

2. Neuroweb technologies have been one of the
earliest technological dreams …
Live forever
Control things by mind
Communicate by thought
Use invisible helpers

3. … but it is now that the technology makes this
dream feasible
Non-invasive BBI demonstration, University of Washington

4. Where will the road of neuroscience
will lead us?
Next gen prosthetics
BBI communication
Remote control of robots
Brain mapping initiatives

5. Transhumanist Vision 1.0:
‘Superabled’ augmented humans
Super-strong
Super-fast
Super-smart
Super-healthy

6. Transhumanist Vision 1.0:
Shared & synthesized experiences
Ultra-fast learning
Sensoriums
Transfer of
body-mind states
Neuro-dreaming

7. Transhumanist Vision 1.0:
Expanding realm of consciousness
From speaking with pets …
… to Uplift

8. Transhumanist Vision 1.0: Digital immortality
Digital copies
of mental
functions
Digital copies
of memories
& experiences
Mind-body
detachment:
uploaded/
downloaded
consciousness

9. Transhumanist Vision 2.0:
Transition to collective level
It’s not AI (Kurzweil)
It’s not augmented
individuals (Vinge)
It’s augmented humanity,
trans-social collective
mind (Turchin / Josylyn /
Heylighen)

10. Transhumanist Vision 2.0: Neo-tribes
Coping with increasing complexity through collective thought & action,
helping overcome ‘trauma of isolation’
Implying not ‘death of individuality’ but manifestation of maximal
personal ability in environments of shared meaning & action

11. Transhumanist Vision 2.0: ‘Psychozoic Era’
Collective minds & bodies to ‘mind forests’
Post personal:
shared bodies
& minds
Post
technical:
natural
merger of
minds, bodies &
machines
Post verbal:
people & IoT
as nodes of
Global Brain
Post cultural:
new ethics &
new meanings
of (co)existence

12. Digital enlightenment?

13. Transhumanist Vision 2.0:
Transition becomes a pressing need
Transition through
formation of collective
consciousness that is able to
handle growing world’s
complexity
Main crises of 2010-40 are
endogenous, and their magnitude
is such that we either find new
forms to handle the increasing
complexity or fail as a civilization
and (possibly) as a species
‘Cyberpunk’ is not
sustainable: increased
complexity of sociotechnical systems
unmatched by regulating &
goal-setting systems
Rolling to the past: collapse of
complex society will come at
tremendous cost of billions of
lives
NOW
2013
2025
2040

14. Big trends that lead to NeuroWeb:
challenges of complexity
Naturalization of technologies
seamless interfaces between natural features of
mind&body & technologies
Mind & body amplification
prosthetics, cyberbodies, artificial senses,
mind augmentation, AI exocortex
Technosphere ‘alive’ / ‘conscious’
IoT ‘smart ambience’, AI in management & ed,
artificial agents mirror & replace mental functions
Network culture
collective, horizontal, complexityoriented, emergence-based etc.
Emergence
of NeuroWeb:
around
2025-30

15. Key interfaces of NeuroWeb
BBI: direct human-human
& human-animal
communications
Interfaces between
natural minds and
exocortex
Internet of
Artificial
Agents
Internet of
Humans
Interfaces between
natural or hybrid minds
& artificial body organs
AA that imitate and
support individual &
collective minds
Internet of
Things
Artificial organs of individual
& collective
bodies, (sensors, manipulato
rs, cyber-bodies & robotics)
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16. Three key elements of the Roadmap
HARDWARE
MAPS OF BRAIN,
MAPS OF MIND
PROTOCOLS:
PSYCHOTECHNIQUES
& COLLECTIVITY
Networks that enable transfer of neural data
High-precision neural interfaces
Quantum computers
Semantic technologies in Internet & AI
Generic brain emulation to real-time
individual brain emulation
‘Blue Mind’ project &
‘universal language of mind’ (mental data
transfer protocols)
Ultrafast learning
Productive body-mind states
Protocols that control collective intelligence
& group consciousness processes

17. Before NeuroWeb, there is Biometry-Web
Biometry-web: Internet communication that
Neuroweb: Internet
employs intensive use of various biometry related data
from wearables, eye trackers, body motion & facial
expression recognition etc.
communication employs
neural system readings
alongside biometry data
Biometry reading [AKA Quantified Self] (for control, learning
etc.): wearables (GSR, myogram, pulse, temp, etc.), noninvasive neurointerfaces, eye trackers, body motion scan etc
High-res neurointerface
readings
Biometry meta-language: complex pattern recognition for
multi-dimensional space of body-and-mind states (presented
by combinations of indicators), supported by BigLiveData
Re-mapping of mult-dim
body-mind state space
as neural patterns
Biometry control: biofeedback training to help master the
variety of body-mind states + psycho-techniques that allow fast
switching between these states.
Biofeedback training &
techniques for neural pattern
activation
Artificial agents that mirror & support complex mental
activities controlled with biometry
Artificial agent-based
exocortex

18. Potentially, every area of human life
will be affected: NeuroWeb is next ICT
• Education
• Entertainment
• Healthcare &
Wellness
• Social interaction
• Public art
• Working with
environment
• Production & logistics
• Design & R&D
• Management &
governance
• Security & Defense
• Urban living: home
ambience, transportati
on, city infrastructure

19. Our current initiatives
Global
NeuroWeb
Foresight
NeuroWeb
Manifesto Essays
Roadmap by Russian NeuroWeb group:
late 2012 & 2013
Global roadmap: October 2014
International NeuroWeb Council: 2015 and onwards
Collection of invited essays on themes raised by
NeuroWeb Manifesto: 2014
Poly-logue format to become community-based
process
NeuroWeb
MSc program
Inter-University program in Russia from 2015
Future Biotech (interdisciplinary international school
in Europe): 2015 special theme
Ongoing R&D
Number of projects (our own focus is on collective
intelligence methods and CI enhancement by BCI /
biometry with biofeedback)

20. Invitation to act
1. Provide feedback on NeuroWeb ‘map of the future’
2. Participate in the International Foresight aimed to create the
Global NeuroWeb Roadmap in 2014
3. Join the International NeuroWeb Council or Working Groups
aimed to coordinate research efforts that work towards
creation of NeuroWeb technologies (including the support of
international R&D cooperation)
4. Organize events that help promote NeuroWeb concepts &
cause
5. Collaborate with Group or Council members on specific
research / application projects that can help advance
NeuroWeb, including the design & hosting of educational
programs that help build human capacity for NeuroWeb

21. Global NeuroWeb Foresight:
connect with us
Website of the Initiative
(and the Roadmap):
www.globalneuroweb.org
FB Group:
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GlobalNeuroWeb
Contact person:
Pavel Luksha
pavel.luksha@gmail.com
+1 347 403 24 58