The Neural Lace Podcast #4 Guest: Andre Watson

The Neural Lace Talks is a podcast about Science and Technology. Main website http://vrma.io Contact via micah@vrma.io

The Neural Lace Talks is a podcast about Science and Technology. 
Main website http://vrma.io Contact via micah@vrma.io

The Neural Lace Talks Host: Micah Blumberg Editor: Adam Alonzi

Have you ever wondered how Neural lace might work? I have some amazing guests talking about it on my podcast, give it a listen if you have time today.

In the 4th episode of the Neural Lace Podcast, I talk to Andre Watson, the CEO of Ligandal, a genetic nano-medicine company developing personalized gene therapies. goo.gl/cgCNwX Watson and I take a deeper dive into the synapse physiology and molecular biological basis of consciousness.

How much do we really need to understand and observe to effectively create neural lace? Andre presents his argument for the biological basis of consciousness.
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The Neural Lace Podcast Playlist Summary

The Neural Lace Talks is a podcast about Science and Technology. I am your host, a journalist who has been a student of the brain since 2005.

Find the youtube playlist for all the episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuAPx_OL_kE35pOKBfEd2TIWWX_tfuvM

About the 4th Episode of The Neural Lace Talks.

We are going to need artificial intelligence big time to solve neural lace, and in this episode I hope I explain why it is going to work, why AI is the right tool.
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Introduction: Do you remember that moment in the Harry Potter books/movies when Professor Snape kills Professor Dumbledore? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter

Harry Potter - Wikipedia
A series of many genres, including fantasy, drama, coming of age, friendship, and the British school story (which…en.wikipedia.org

In that moment, for me, time seemed to slow down, and I had what felt like thousands of thoughts simultaneously. I became hyper conscious for one breath, I thought “how can this be? did this really happen? is this an illusion, a trick, a magic trick, is Dumbledore really dead? Is Snape really evil after all? Is Snape still somehow good? How could JK Rowling have done this to us? A thousand similar thoughts may have also ran through your mind at that exact moment. I hope that is how people feel when they listen to my podcast today and they get to the point where they are finally beginning to understand how Neural Lace will work, how their own mind works, how deep learning AI works, what brainwaves are, and more.

In this episode we talk about the molecular picture of the human brain as a kind of computation.

I talk about how my research began twelve years ago after reading a book by Jeff Hawkin’s called On Intelligence http://www.onintelligence.org/

On Intelligence - Welcome
Welcome to the official Web site for the discussion and ongoing discovery of thoeries and concepts presented in On…www.onintelligence.org

Jeff Hawkins, Redwood Neuroscience Institute http://www.rni.org/directors.html

Welcome to the Redwood Neuroscience Institute
Affiliation with the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeleywww.rni.org

Jeff Hawkins company Numenta http://numenta.com/

Numenta.com * Leading the New Era of Machine Intelligence
Numenta.com * Leading the New Era of Machine Intelligencenumenta.com

Have you ever wanted to know what deep learning neural networks are? We go into detail about what deep learning neural networks do in this podcast and I help to explain how understanding artificial neural networks can be useful for thinking about how our brains might work.
https://vrma.work/2016/01/28/deep-learning-fuels-nvidia-self-driving-car-technology/

Deep Learning Fuels Nvidia: Self-Driving Car Technology
Deep Learning Fuels Nvidia: Self-Driving Car Technology Posted at Radical Science News on January 27, 2016 by Adam…vrma.work

I successfully argue the case that humans are actually metal robots, because of the calcium and potassium ions in our brains, I successfully argue that we are precisely manipulating a magnetic field with these charge particles known as ions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium

Calcium - Wikipedia
Calcium is a chemical element with symbol Ca and atomic number 20. Calcium is a soft grayish-yellow alkaline earth…en.wikipedia.org

I put forward my hypothesis for the basic structure of consciousness that we have as being magnetic. Something that I learn would might be called the ionotropic brain, which is in contrast to concept of a metabotropic brain. http://www.interactive-biology.com/3974/ionotropic-vs-metabotropic-receptors/

Ionotropic vs Metabotropic Receptors
In our previous article, I mentioned that after neurotransmitters are released into the synaptic cleft, they diffuse…www.interactive-biology.com

We also compare and contrast the neural network with the glial network and briefly touch on the possibility of a mitochondrial network. https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7007-11-71

Mitochondrial network morphology: building an integrative, geometrical view
The morphology of mitochondrial networks is complex and highly varied, yet vital to cell function. The first step…bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com

We briefly discuss BlueBrain’s project where they answer how neurons connect to each other. Blue Brain Project opens new insights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySgmZOTkQA8
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I argue how machines can have the same kind of consciousness as humans.
I explain diffusion tensor imaging. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tutmVG_B3Bk

I touch on tensor calculus https://youtu.be/e0eJXttPRZI?list=PL2irzZJu17tU4eHI9-wPdZD55-Heg3AZh

There was a recent study that said people who know more than one language think differently: “A study from Lancaster University and Stockholm University, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, found that people who are bilingual think about time differently depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events.” http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/bilingual-speakers-time-different-people-one-language-study-swedish-spanish-a7715146.html?cmpid=facebook-post

People who speak two lanugages experience time differently, study finds
For those who can only speak one language, people who have the ability to speak multiple are often a source of…www.independent.co.uk

But what if everyone uses somewhat unique mental models from one minute to the next, and never the same twice? We tackle that idea and we consider how we can achieve Neural Lace even if no one ever has the same exact brainwave pattern twice, and we explain how deep learning Artificial Intelligence is going to work to identify what brainwave patterns are in specific instances.

We explore what a brainwave might be http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10400419.2016.1125255

Different Brain Wave Patterns and Cortical Control Abilities in Relation to Different Creative…
Contemporary understanding of brain functions provides a way to probe into the mystery of creativity. However, the…www.tandfonline.com

I give a plausible explanation for how the human brain might be capable of calculation at room temperature in a similar way to how a quantum computer works and I explain a scenario in which the human brain might be able to perform mathematics faster than any computer. http://www.pcworld.com/article/3194574/hardware/china-adds-a-quantum-computer-to-high-performance-computing-arsenal.html

China adds a quantum computer to high-performance computing arsenal
China already has the world's fastest supercomputer and has now built a crude quantum computer that could outpace today…www.pcworld.com

We talk about the science fiction television show called Black Mirror and the dystopia idea of having advertisements in neural lace. We consider why hatred for advertisements might be an evolutionary impulse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror

Black Mirror - Wikipedia
Black Mirror is a British science fiction television anthology series created by Charlie Brooker and centred around…en.wikipedia.org

Finally we touch on why Neural Lace and Artificial Brains are an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics and the universe as a fractal, and we briefly touch on the dendrite as a computer in of itself.

There is a GPU Technology conference on the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th in San Jose, that is definitely the place for Neural Lace Researcher to be. Some of the latest ideas in how to create great AI will be featured talks at the Nvidia GPU conference. It will be a great place to learn about the latest technology coming down the pipeline that will put us one step closer to achieving Neural Lace.
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GPU Technology Conference 2017 - #1 GPU Developer Event
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Thanks for reading and or listening.

If you would like to be on an episode of the Neural Lace Podcast please email micah@vrma.work