Enhancing Humanity Through Bioengineering, Synthetic Telepathy and Empathy

Dear Consciousness Hackers,

Please join us for an exhilarating discussion of bioengineering, Synthetic Telepathy and superpower empathy with:

ADAM PIORE (https://www.adampiore.com/), author of The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human (https://www.amazon.com/Body-Builders-Inside-Science-Engineered/dp/0062347144/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=)

GERWIN SCHALK (http://www.schalklab.org/people/lab-director), neuro-engineer, building a "thought helmet" (http://discovermagazine.com/2011/apr/15-armys-bold-plan-turn-soldiers-into-telepaths) enabling people to communicate telepathically.

DAVID SAUVAGE (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/24/superpower-empaths-paid-read-mind-empathy), Empath (psychic), capable of feeling someone else’s emotions in his own body.

COST: $15 Cash

WINE WILL BE SERVED

“Why not build better versions of ourselves? Why not enhance, augment, transcend? Why not see how far we can push it?” -- Adam Piore, author, The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human

ADAM PIORE (https://www.adampiore.com/), author of The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human (https://www.amazon.com/Body-Builders-Inside-Science-Engineered/dp/0062347144/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=), will explore the way science and technology are unlocking untapped resilience in our minds and bodies. He'll highlight the cutting-edge bioengineers of our time as well as remarkable people who began life in unremarkable circumstances who soon found themselves facing challenges most of us can hardly imagine. Their stories show us where our limits lie and how we might overcome them, what we are capable of, and why. Adam is most interested in how technology will not just enhance our physical abilities, but principally, how it will improve our humanity.

One of the groundbreaking neuro-engineers Adam profiles in his book is GERWIN SCHALK (http://www.schalklab.org/people/lab-director), who will discuss his work helping the U.S. Army build a "thought helmet" (http://discovermagazine.com/2011/apr/15-armys-bold-plan-turn-soldiers-into-telepaths), a device that can detect and transmit the unspoken speech of soldiers, allowing them to communicate with one another silently. His work in Synthetic Telepathy has military applications but also clinical ones like giving mute patients the ability to communicate telepathically; his research recording signals from the surface of the brain augur a revolution in wearable interfaces between mind and machine.

Like Gerwin's "thought helmet," Facebook is building a skullcap able to transmit sentences out of your brain at a rate of 100 words per minute, and Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has formed a company called Neuralink (https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html) building brain implants to directly link human minds to computers. Are we all going to be Telepaths one day?

While neuro-engineers work on Synthetic Telepathy, Empaths like DAVID SAUVAGE (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/24/superpower-empaths-paid-read-mind-empathy) are capable of feeling others' emotions in their own bodies, as if those emotions were their own. He "can consciously enter into someone’s emotional field and figure out what is going on with them.”