Rodrigo Castellanos: Art & Emotion, Colombian Corruption, Legalizing Cocaine, Pablo Escobar, & The Colombia Less Traveled
Rodrigo is a creative, videographer, and property manager in Colombia.
Read MoreStephen Kinzer: MK Ultra, Sidney Gottlieb, LSD Experiments, CIA Torture, & Operation Midnight Climax
Stephen Kinzer is a journalist, author, and academic.
Read MoreJulie Labau: How Pain Works, Hinge Dates, Heartbreak, The Opioid Crisis, & The Nature Of Reality
Julie Labau is a neuroscientist earning a joint Ph.D. from the University of Maastricht and Yale University. She specializes in neuropathic pain and drug treatments for pain disorders.
Read MoreRandal Koene (Round 2)
In this episode of Auxoro, Zach spends time talking with Randal Koene. Randal is a neuroscientist and neuro-engineer, as well as the co-founder of carboncopies.org. This organization supports scientists who are working towards whole brain emulation. Zach and Randal discuss several topics in this episode, including whole brain emulation, mind uploading, the process of mapping the human brain, the metaphysical questions that arise in pursuit of whole brain emulation, and the complexity of the human brain.
Read MoreRandal Koene
This time, we sat down with Randal Koene, a well-respected neuroscientist and founder of CarbonCopies.org, the outreach and roadmapping organization for advancing substrate independent minds. What is a substrate independent mind? Fair question. According to Carbon Copies, substrate independence is when “our cognitive processes are then no longer tied to a single version of the brain’s processing architecture. Instead, our thoughts and feelings will be able to exist on a variety of processing substrates.”
In other words, our minds, our consciousness can exist outside of our brains, the mushy stuff, potentially forever on another platform. Randal Koene has dedicated his life to mind uploading, whole brain emulation, and making it possible, as he puts it, “to choose our brain and body much as we can choose our winter or summer clothes to suit our needs.”
Randal explains the concept of mind uploading and its implications far better than I will ever be able to so I’ll let him take it from here. This topic is important, and although mind uploading may not seem like a reality, it may be closer than you think and can solve many of the problems we deal with today as we are limited by our biology. So without further ado here is our wide-ranging conversation with neuroscientist Randal Koene.