Past meeting
The InnerSpace Foundation and The IF Prize - Preston (Pete) Estep III, Ph.D.
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Meeting Description
Why
- Hosted by the Future Salons - Please RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/6oxlzr Future Salons have the following structure: 6-7pm is networking with light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP; 7-9+pm is the presentation followed by discussion.
Organized by
- James Clement (Executive Director, WTA)
Details
The InnerSpace Foundation and The IF Prize: Why and How We Should Transcend Our Evolved Limitations
Networking: 6 - 7PM
Presentation & Discussion: 7 - 9PM
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Preston (Pete) Estep III, Ph.D.
Chairman, The InnerSpace Foundation
URL: www.innerspacefoundation.org
Biological evolution is a somewhat haphazard and non-optimizing process that has produced many undesirable artifacts. Among a large number and wide variety of such artifacts two stand out as the underlying causes of the most pervasive and extreme human suffering: mental and lifespan limitations. Mental inabilities are universal, and they must ultimately serve to explain our ongoing failures to end human warfare, crime, poverty, and famine, and to completely cure diseases, disabilities, aging and death; therefore, these inabilities are fundamentally even more harmful to humanity than the categories of biomedical dysfunction we currently labor to cure. The overall goal of the InnerSpace Foundation is to accelerate the development of biomedical technologies for transcending these limitations. Chairman of the InnerSpace Foundation Dr. Pete Estep will outline specific steps the foundation is taking toward dramatic enhancement of memory, learning and cognition, and will describe how these near-term goals should ultimately help us to eliminate or transcend other unwanted artifacts of Darwinian evolution.
Dr. Estep is a graduate of Cornell University, where he earned a B.S. degree and performed neuroscience research as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute undergraduate scholar. He earned a Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard Medical School performing research in the laboratory of genomics pioneer Prof. George Church. Dr. Estep has founded and advised multiple technology start-up companies and organizations. He is a co-founder and former CEO of the longevity research biotechnology company Longenity, Inc., and is an adviser to the Personal Genome Project (PGP) based at Harvard Medical School. He recently founded the InnerSpace Foundation in order to accelerate humanity's essential quest to overcome its evolved limitations.
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Who Attended
The organizer estimated that 55 people attended.
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Kennita
"This is an awesome, exciting, and frightening undertaking. Implantable read-write brain interfaces open up possibilities for mind control, in-brain spam, untold wealth for purveyors of porn, increased EQ as well as IQ (through empathy), and a complete refocusing of the purposes of schools and universities. And that's off the top of my head. One possible early application might be a database of face-name correspondences to assist those otherwise unable to recall them." -
Romana Reynolds
"I hope that push prizes such as the IF Prize succeed as a vehicle for advancing human knowledge and actively improving the future. "
Michael
"The presentation had the potential to be great. I found most of the information to be repetitive of what we already know. We know that this technology is feasible and possible. There was not enough focus on planning, finance, and how we, the community, can help out and too much discussion about splitting hairs on technical terminology. The one valuable question asked about dealing with the media was imho, brushed off. If you want money, you have to speak the language of media and organization. Otherwise, you are a talking head...A figment of what is possible, with no action plan or road map on how to get there. "