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Marina Abramovic is obsessed with brains https://news.artnet.com/art-world/marina-abramovic-brain-interview-660743

https://vimeo.com/185422692

The EU's Human Brain Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Brain_Project

https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/silicon-brains/

The large-scale neuromorphic machines are based on two complementary principles. The many-core SpiNNaker machine located in Manchester (UK) connects 500,000 ARM processors with a packet-based network optimized for the exchange of neural action potentials (spikes). The BrainScaleS physical model machine located in Heidelberg (Germany) implements analogue electronic models of 4 Million neurons and 1 Billion synapses on 20 silicon wafers. Both machines are integrated into the HBP collaboratory and offer full software support for their configuration, operation and data analysis.

Chip for Human Brain Project

ARM chip OG Steve Furber: Turing missed the mark on human intelligence

Professor Steve Furber, one of the designers of the original Acorn RISC Machine (better known as the ARM chip) in the mid-1980s, is giving The Register an update on his work within the European Union's Human Brain Project.

Institute of Engineering and Technology (charity) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institution_of_Engineering_and_Technology

RUTLISH WINS the Institute of Engineering and Technology Faraday Challenge day! (based at Merton) https://www.rutlish.merton.sch.uk/news/rutlish-wins-institute-engineering-technology-faraday-challenge-day/

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2590059/13019447

tag words: The Wellcome Trust, Tavistock, Biotech, Geneva Biotech, the Weizmann Institute, ACORN chip, ARM chip

Marina Abramovic and the Hackable Brain – An EU funded project

The Brain As A Hackable Driver, 2015 paper - http://isea2015.org/proceeding/submissions/ISEA2015_submission_42.pdf

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In recent years numerous consumer grade BCI devices have inundated the market. The largest EEG driven neuro feedback ride in the world, “The Ascent” by Yehuda Duenyas used a consumer grade EEG reader to allow a participant to controls their own brain waves through focus and meditation.

Marina Abramovic’s three-month performance at the Museum of Modern Art’s The Artist Is Present where she sat across the table and gazed at the participants was the inspiration for her neuroscience experiment The Magic of the Mutual Gaze. [7] [8] It used an Emotiv wireless headset asking two people to gaze into one another’s eyes as their brain activity was displayed real time on a screen behind them....

These experiments and performances harness the specific mental states of focus and meditation. When more complex environments and sophisticated brain EEG readers are used, additional mental states are readily accessed, opening up new spheres of inquiry in the performance environment. The implications of these developments hold promise for rehabilitation, medical and gaming uses, and should be viewed with skepticism surrounding issues of brain surveillance, and the ability to manipulate and ‘hack’ the brain.

Neuroscience researchers at the University of Pennsylvania suggest we are on the cusp of measuring psychological traits and personal information through functional neuroimaging. Instead of using the word ‘geneotype’ which references the Human Genome project, an international project that mapped all human genes, they refer to this newfound identifier as a ‘brainotype.’ When pressed to say how realistic this possibility is the researchers stated, “an explicit answer to this question is not available in the literature because published functional neuroimaging research has not been directed toward the measurement of normal psychological traits for the purpose of characterizing individuals.” ….

...Through studying the neuroscience necessary to create a BCI interface, it became apparent that current consumer level BCIs are a useful, if imperfect mechanism for harnessing human thought. [28] However, they do allow for more of an indicator of a range of mental states than previously existed on a consumer level.

Noah conferences, ARC processor: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2557769/12844969

https://youtu.be/myYZfLhtOZc

FROM ATOM TO ARC https://www.stairwaytohell.com/articles/AU-AcornHistory.html

The history of Acorn Computers is both a mirror of the history of the micro industry in Britain, and, through its continued survival, a testament to the ability and vision of its founders. But like other small computer companies which sprang to life in the boom years of the early Eighties, Acorn has known both success and failure.

CPU's first major task was the development of an improved and more secure electronic fruit machine program. University brains like Steve Furber and Roger Wilson, then undergraduates, provided much of the programming and design input, and it was Wilson who invented the machine to beat Sinclair's MK14.

The RISC chip, while new and exciting and very, very fast, had not yet taken the form of a tangible machine which could be sold to customers. Luckily, the continued good sales of Masters kept the company afloat while the Advanced Research and Development team under Roger Wilson and Steve Furber developed the ARM chip and its companions that eventually became the Archimedes.

A company called VLSI Technology Incorporated (VTI) was keen to help Acorn. As well as making the ARM and its associated chips, it makes all Acorn's ROMs and two of the custom chips for the Master. The first designs for the ARM were done by September 1984, and the first sample chips were returned by VTI in April of 1985. They worked properly the first time, and the continued use of the same design tools has ensured that all the chips since have also worked.

http://archive.is/ArmLF