​WHAT ⭐️:

​​​• Speakers: Professor Michael Levin from Tufts, Professor William Hahn, Professor Elan Barenholtz, Andrés Gómez Emilsson from Qualia Research Institute, Addy Cha from Ekkolapto Research, Rana G from Augmentation Lab, and hypnotist Albert Nerenberg!

​TOPICS 🧪:

​• Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Cellular and Biological Intelligence, Platonic Space of Minds, Anthrobots and Xenobots, Mind-Blindness.

​• William Hahn: Infohazards, Mortal Computation, Thoughtforms, Digital Psychedelics, Hyperorganisms.

​• Elan Barenholtz: How Humans and LLMs Are the Same, Linguistic Latent Space, Autogenerative Theory of Mind and Language.

​• Andrés Gómez-Emilsson: Screens of Consciousness, Neural Annealing, Emergence of Self-Awareness, Spectrum of Possible Minds and Qualia.

​• Addy Cha: Olfactory Languages and Synesthesia, Language Inducing Altered States, Hardware as Software, Cybernetics and Cross-Species Programming, Paradoxical Organisms.

​• Albert Nerenberg: Lucid Dreams, Hypnotism, REM Sleep, Trance States.

​• Rana G: Cultures as Learning Systems, Cultural Engineering.

​• Follow Professor Michael Levin here: X (@DrMichaelLevin), ThoughtForms.life,

​• Follow Andrés here: QRI.org, QualiaComputing.com, X (@algekalipso), Interview on Theories of Everything.

​• Follow Professor William Hahn here: Hahn.AI, X (@will_hahn), Interview on Theories of Everything, Machine Perception Cognitive Robotics Lab, Center for Complex Systems.

​• Follow Professor Elan Barenholtz here: Barenholtz.ai, Substack, X (@ebarenholtz), Machine Perception Cognitive Robotics Lab, Interview on Ekkolapto, Center for Complex Systems.

​• Follow Albert Nerenberg here: Website, X (@albertnerenberg), Instagram (@albert_nerenberg_hypnosis).

​​​​​• Hosted by Addy from ekkolapto.org. Previous hackathons, salons, podcasts, and dinners at MIT, UT Austin, FAU, Harvard, Augmentation Lab, DC/Maryland, NYC.

​​​WHEN 🗓️:

​​​• Thursday July 3 from 1:30 PM EDT to 6:30 PM EDT.

​SCHEDULE 📝:

​• 1:30-1:45PM: Social Computing & Cultural Computing: Cultures and Minds as Computational Systems (Ekkolapto's Addy Cha)

​• 1:45-2PM: Engineering New Cultures (Augmentation Lab’s Rana G)

​• 2-3PM: The Binding Problem in Biological and Artificial Intelligence (Prof. Michael Levin & Andrés Gómez Emilsson from Qualia Research Institute)

​• 3-4:30PM: The Autogenerative Theory of Mind, Unthinkable Thoughts, Infohazards (Prof. William Hahn & Prof. Elan Barenholtz)

​• 4:30-5PM: Diverse Control Systems of Biological and Artificial Minds (Prof. William Hahn, Prof. Elan Barenholtz, hypnotist Albert Nerenberg)

​• 5-6PM: Open Discussion

​​​WHO 👀:

​​​• Students, researchers, professors, and founders passionate about fields of philosophy and logic, computer science and AI, math and physics, engineering, cognitive science and consciousness.

​​​• A technical background is preferred but not required. Even if you think you are not a fit for this event, apply anyways!

​PREVIOUS SALONS 📸:

​​​​​• Past Polymath Salons and discussions are uploaded for you to watch on the Ekkolápto channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ekkolapto3