‎Ellery Newton‎ to carboncopies 24 Dec 2018

Hi all,

We must critically think about what we believe is the right or best approach for Carboncopies Foundation that is useful and valuable. Let’s hope to start a conversation.

If anyone has ideas for viable products that we can build around and advance whole brain emulation R&D. Please comment, add members, and donate!

Sincerely,
Ellery

Comments

Randal Koene Giving this a go, here's an insight that might help direct or guide creative thinking. If we're thinking about products that have the following characteristics:
a) the product technology is ready for commercialization (there are no scientific hurdles with unknown timelines, markets are identifiable with specificity),
b) developments of the proposed product technology have a clear beneficial impact on advancing to whole brain emulation...
Then, based on personal experience, you're most likely to find a serendipitous match in areas of tool development than by aiming directly at milestones of WBE R&D or applications of neuroscience results to medical technology.
Let's say, for example, that we really need a way to automatically identify neuronal cell structures in stacks of electron microscope images. A product that can be trained by human experts and continue to improve its own ability to identify, classify and map impurities or materials in acoustic 3D probes of underground volumes might be commercially viable, and might ultimately be good enough and be translatable to EM stacks of neuronal tissue.
That's just a made-up example, so don't think too hard about it. :-)
What I mean is that I think it may be necessary to have a good insight into the actual technical hurdles to WBE and to also associate creatively with opportunties far outside of neuroscience.
The reasons for this are many. Sometimes what would be immensely valuable in neuroscience / neurotech is simply far from product ready. And sometimes what looks like an awesome output of a neurotech lab has no viable market size, even if it were taken all the way to product readiness.
But no worries, that's where critical review helps. :-)