Presentation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mgaY1MTh2M

Summary

Tens of millions in the U.S. struggle with insomnia and too few know that doctors actually prefer CBT-I (over pills), a therapy that has a proven 70 to 80% success rate for ending insomnia. Our online streaming chats will spotlight CBT-I specialists who will share what they know. They’ll suggest all the ways to get affordable, accessible CBT-I help – anywhere.

Join us … send us questions … participate by sharing your CBT-I success stories. Help save lives (lost in drowsy driving fatalities or drug addiction) by sharing our shows with your networks!

What will we chat about?

Who will chat?

Meredith Cary, the host, will chat with clinicians, researchers, educators, and students from multiple disciplines … from among civilians & the military, non-profits & for-profits, and from professional sleep societies and associations.

Will you help share?

The American College of Physicians recommends that 100% of adults with chronic insomnia should initially be referred to CBT-I. But, if CBT-I providers aren’t visible and don’t share what we know about it or where to find it, physicians don’t know to whom or where to refer patients.

Perhaps, if we ALL share together in one common place, we might increase consumer demand for CBT-I and reduce the over-prescribing of addictive drugs.  This non-profit, curated and crowdsourced CBT-I Live ...

Summary

Dr. Robin Hanson will give a presentation to the CN3 faculty and students on his new book … The Age of Em, “Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth”

Time: 11am   Date: September 27, 2016 Place: 229 Krasnow George Mason University Fairfax, Va. 22030

Broadcast details: This onAir broadcast will be streamed live from this post as well as the BHM You Tube here.

Robin Hansen Profile

Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University Research associate, Future of Humanity Institute  Chief scientist, Consensus Point

Dr. Hanson has pioneered prediction markets, also known as information markets or idea futures, since 1988. He was the first to write in detail about people creating and subsidizing markets in order to gain better estimates on those topics.

Author of “The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth”, Oxford University Press, 1 June 2016

More on Robin Hanson can be found in this post.

Scheduled Broadcast

Slides

Below are the slides Robin will be using for his presentation.

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Book

Age of Em, “Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth” By Robin Hanson

From Oxford University Press Overview: A unique look into the possible technological future of the human race

Draws upon an unusually wide command of academic consensus and standard analytical tools across economics, ...

Title: The Problem with Phi: A Critique of Integrated Information Theory Author: Michael A. Cerullo

Presenter: Todd Gillette Moderator: Harold Morowitz

Time: 12 pm  EST Date: Jan. 13, 2016 Place: Krasnow Institute YouTube Page

Time permitting, Harold Morowitz will discuss John von Neumann revisited “The Computer and the Brain”and “Self Reproducing Automata”.

If you have any questions, please contact Harold Morowitz at morowitz@gmu.edu

Broadcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syGoFofcJ7k

Article by Michael Cerullo

The Problem with Phi: A Critique of Integrated Information Theory (PLOS Computational Biology) Sept. 17, 2015

The most recent version of Integrated Information Theory being critiqued is presented in From the Phenomenology to the Mechanisms of Consciousness: Integrated Information Theory 3.0.

The useful Chalmers article that the above article refers to is: Absent qualia, fading qualia, dancing qualia

Summary

In the last decade, Guilio Tononi has developed the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness. IIT postulates that consciousness is equal to integrated information (Φ). The goal of this paper is to show that IIT fails in its stated goal of quantifying consciousness. The paper will challenge the theoretical and empirical arguments in support of IIT. The main theoretical argument for the relevance of integrated information to consciousness is the principle of information exclusion. Yet, no justification is given to support this principle. Tononi claims there is significant ...

BigNeuron Broadcast

September 29, 2015 at 11 PM EDT Live audience of CN3 members at Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies room 229.

Slide Presentation

Hangout Participants were

Hanchuan Peng Yinan Wan Xiaoxiao Liu Zhi Zhou

Live Audience included

Giorgio Ascoli David Hamilton Unidentified CN3 members

Questions from Hangout panelists

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We welcome your questions, suggestions, and feedback. You can email your questions prior to this Hangout On Air to: brain2015@onair.cc. If you are a Hub member, you can enter your questions in the Comments section of this post.

For our Viewers and Members

If you would like to particpate in our next BRAIN 2015 Live Hangout On Air as a panelist, contact Alexandra Rosser at Sasha@onair.cc.

We welcome your questions, suggestions, and feedback. You can submit your questions at the twitter hastag #brain2015live. You can email your questions prior to this Hangout On Air to: brain2015@onair.cc. If you are a Hub member, you can enter your questions in the Comments section of this post.

If you know of a person, organization, research, video, or news item that you recommend we feature, send your suggestions to Todd Gillette at Todd@onair.cc

Clockwise from top leftI- BRAIN Initiative – Multi-Council Working Group Meeting 7/30/15II- NIH 2014 Grants – Activity measurement at single cellIII- Media (video) – I am a connectomeIV- Mapping & Intervention -Neuromorpho.org

4 pm EDT – For week of August 1 to August 7, 2015 

I- Multi-Council Working Group Meeting 7/30/15 (BRAIN Initiative)

II-  Activity measurement at single cell (NIH grant)

III- I am a connectome (Video)

 IV- Neuromorpho.org (Brain Mapping)

Host: Todd Gillette; Panelists: Sasha Rosser; Katie Yang, Michele Ferrante

Program

Questions from Audience & Hub Members

We welcome your questions, suggestions, and feedback. You can email your questions prior to this Hangout to: brain2015@onair.cc or, if you are a Hub member, you can enter your questions in the Comments section of this post. When the Hangout On Air is live, you can submit your questions through the Q & A panel in the right column. With the Q&A function on, audience attendees can +1 other people’s questions. The questions with the most +1s are pushed up to the top of the queue.

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 Boston ...

Clockwise from top leftI- BRAIN Initiative “Multi-Council Working Group Meeting 7/30/15”II- 2014 Grants – Patrick Kanold “Crowd coding in the brain”III- Mapping & Intervention “Calcium sensors for molecular fMRI”IV- Outreach (video) “Mind-controlled quadcopter”

For week of July 25 to July 31 – Start time: 4pm EDT.

I- Multi-Council Working Group Meeting 7/31/15

II- Patrick Kanold- Crowd coding in the brain

III- Calcium sensors for molecular fMRI

IV- Mind-controlled quadcopter (video)

Panelists: Todd Gillette (host); Sasha Rosser (Hubmaster);

Program

Questions from Audience & Hub Members

We welcome your questions, suggestions, and feedback. You can email your questions prior to this Hangout to: brain2015@onair.cc or, if you are a Hub member, you can enter your questions in the Comments section of this post. When the Hangout On Air is live, you can submit your questions through the Q & A panel in the right column. With the Q&A function on, audience attendees can +1 other people’s questions. The questions with the most +1s are pushed up to the top of the queue.

Expo

Featured Catalyst

National Institutes of Health

Featured Exhibit

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