Meditation in the Age of Facebook and Twitter From Shamanism to Transhumanism

June 2011 ajit.jaokar@futuretext.com

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Ajit Jaokar
Ajit Jaokar World Economic Forum - future of the Internet UK based - Hands on Publisher (futuretext) - Author (Mobile Web 2.0, Social Media Marketing, Open Mobile) - Chair: Oxford University's Next Gen Mobile Applications panel - PhD student UCL/UK - Consulting Operators, Governments/EU, Startups Recent and forthcoming talks include Mobile world congress(2007,2008,2009), CEBIT,

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I want my life back ..

A familiar feeling .. Living in the Real Time World ..

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An inspiration ..

An inspiration the mindset needed to land a plane safely in the Hudson

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Personal development ..

Personal development .. Ancient and the modern ..

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The four ages of meditation ..

The four ages of meditation: Shamanic, Religious, Guru led ..

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The fourth age of meditation ..

Based on networks .. Social networks and neural networks ..

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A platypus of a meditation book ..

A platypus of a meditation book .. An evolution of meditation ..

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Fuchs und die hase ..

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The image ..

Pilot/air traffic control

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Two sided view of meditation ..

A two sided view of meditation .. Disconnection from external input but also connection to a network
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SANM

Social Connected

Augmented Enhanced human functions through technology

Neural The brain and social networks

Meditation Connection to the past and to humanity

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Meditation ..

Adaptations of two existing approaches:

Autosuggestion and
Autogenic meditation

We consider three modifications to these approaches:

1) We focus on the brain and the neural networks

2) We build on the paradigms of networks and emergence

3) We consider the implications of Meditation as a Transhumanist technology - implications of meditation in a world of technological singularity

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Meditation and a Gedankenexperiment ..

And more questions ..

Is the brain an oscillator? And if so, does it resonate? Can such brains synchronize or harmonize? Is such synchronization spontaneous? Can such synchronization be enhanced if we develop the brain? Can meditation (as we define it here) help in that process? Can emergent phenomenon arise from resonating minds? Can synchronization and evolution of the brain be augmented by technology? How does the brain itself evolve as we meditate?
There are two phenomenon which study the ability of multiple oscillators to synchronize: Coupled oscillators and Quantum coherence

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Is meditation a transhumanist technology?

The singularity is the point in mankinds future when we will transcend current intellectual and biological limitations and initiate an intelligence and information explosion beyond imagining. Human intelligence could be augmented by technology either through amplification or through connectivity allowing humans to transcend physical limits. Cybernetics Think cochlear implant (bionic ear) not Terminator (cyborg) How do these ideas come together? The facebook of the connected mind ..

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Facebook of the connected mind ..

But what is facebook? (or for that matter any social network): A profile , A wall, private messaging, upload and share content An individual is the most granular unit of a social network. But in future, what if you could extend this to a neural level? To take social networking to the neural level (the facebook of the connected mind), we need the ability to Record brain waves and see them Be able to create a visual representation of your mind at a point in time (a thoughtform) Be able to share that thought form with others Be able to do so cheaply and globally

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Social meditation a shared hologram ..

Social meditation A shared hologram Meditation becomes a shared hologram i.e. your state of mind projected as three dimensional object which can be viewed by others you share it with. How will technology act as a catalyst to meditation? Measurement of brain waves Amplification of brainwaves Projection Connection and Feedback (social functions) Recursion and self reinforcement Making technology cheap and globally accessible

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Games neurons play ..

Alchemy visualiser, from Neurosky. Using a technology called the eSense in the NeuroSky MindSet, the alchemy visualiser is a game that uses feedback to train or relax using software. In the visual mode of the alchemy visualiser, the user is challenged to remain in a specific state with feedback through an image on the screen. This is very similar to meditation using neural imaging.
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Power of meditation ..

The power of meditation, the mind and your shared human past
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