Neuroscience and the study of consciousness are revealing the secrets of one of the most complicated structure in the universe: the human brain.

1. Divya Chander
Hacking the Neural Code, Bionic Brains,
and the Future of Human Consciousness

2. Hacking the Neural Code, Bionic Brains,
and the Future of Human Consciousness
Divya Chander, MD, PhD
Medicine Faculty
Singularity University
divya.chander@singularityu.org

3. How will connec*ng
humans to machines
transform our fundamental
experience of
consciousness?

4. Courtesy: Leica microsystems.com

5. Glass Brain Fly-Through
Gazzaley Lab/SCCN/UCSF & Tim Mullen, UCSD

8. Courtesy: Insightec

9. Courtesy: Insightec

11. Nishimoto, Naselaris , Vu, Banjamini, Yu, Gallant, 2011

12. Nishimoto, Naselaris , Vu, Banjamini, Yu, Gallant, 2011

16. Mind-Reading and Forensics

18. Neuroimage, Fig 3, 2005

20. Consciousness Hacking Under General Anesthesia

21. Alcon
NaUonal Geographic: Barrow Neurological InsUtute

23. hXp://people.virginia.edu/~bbs7s/elias/StereotacUc_Surgery.html

24. hXp://www.med.u-toyama.ac.jp/nsurgery/neuroscience.html

27. Courtesy: Mayo Clinic

28. TMS: Transcranial magneUc sUmulaUon

29. Maharbiz lab, UC Berkeley
Seo et al, Neuron, August 2016

36. Center for Neuroprosthe*cs and Brain Mind Ins*tute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

37. Center for Neuroprosthe*cs and Brain Mind Ins*tute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

38. Cour*ne lab, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

42. Johns Hopkins, Applied Physics Lab

43. University of PiXsburgh

48. Miguel Nicolelis group, Duke University

49. Miguel Nicolelis group, Duke University

53. Dr. Oghalai’s clinic, Stanford

54. Dr. Oghalai’s clinic, Stanford

56. Palanker Lab, Stanford University, 2017
PRIMA bionic goggles – PIXIUM Vision, France
Electro-Neural Interfaces – Wireless sub-reUnal chip

57. Belmonte Lab, Salk InsUtute, November 2016
Restoring light sensiUvity to mice with reUniUs pigmentosa

65. Market opportuni*es
Decision-making
Influence
Privacy & Security
CogniUve enhancement
Human enhancement
AddicUon & MoUvaUon

66. Personal Transforma*on
Decision-making
Influence
Privacy & Security
CogniUve enhancement
Human enhancement
AddicUon & MoUvaUon

68. Photo-illustraUon by Irvin Serrano, Smithsonian Magazine Steve Ramirez, Xu Liu, et al., Tonegawa Lab MIT
Science 26 Jul 2013: Vol. 341; 6144.
CreaUng a False Memory

70. Ajaya Neupane and Nitesh Saxena –
Department of Computer and InformaUon Sciences,
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Md.
Lugor Rahman – Aegis Foundry LLC,
Leanne Hirshfield – Newhouse School of Public
CommunicaUons, Syracuse University
Hackers Could Use Brainwaves
to Steal Passwords
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74. Linda Chamberlain, co-founder of the
Arizona-based cryonics company Alcor, hugs
the container where the body of her
husband, Fred, is frozen in the hope that
someday he can be thawed and revived.
She plans to join him in cryo limbo when her
Ume comes. Fred’s last words, she says,
were “Gee, I hope this works.”

75. hXp://www.lesechos.fr/medias/2015/04/08/1109308_storytelling-le-cerveau-adore-quon-lui-raconte-des-histoires-130624-1.jpg

78. The Blue Brain Project is working to model a complete human brain. For the moment, Blue Brain
scienUsts study rodent brain Ussue and characterize different types of neurons to excruciaUng detail,
recording their electrical properUes, shapes, sizes, and how they connect.

79. 2015

80. CollaboraUon EPFL, Switzerland & Allen Brain InsUtute, Big Blue
VisualizaUon of 3.5s of spontaneous acUvity in the in silico slice under in vivo-like condiUons

81. Will building sufficiently
complex machines allow
them to express
consciousness?

84. Divya Chander, MD, PhD
divya.chander@singularityu.org