"catalyzing contemplative development with technology" - winslow strong (co-founder/cto,...

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Catalyzing Contemplative Development with Technology

Winslow Strong

Hyperwellbeing 2016.11.15

Technology empowers us

and overwhelms us

Can ancient practices be...

...medicine for modernity?

My Path: Grad school → Burnout → Meditation → QS

Wearable Tech

More ǂ better

Meaningful benefits to healthy people?

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Back to meditation...but augmented!

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Mind and Life Institute, 2004. Brandmeyer & Delorme. "Meditation and neurofeedback." Frontiers in psychology 4 (2013)

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Mindfulness has reached millions, but what is the ultimate goal?

Awakening

Current Approaches Focus Exclusively on Basic Meditation

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Basic Meditation Open FlowAdvanced Meditation

…Leaving Millions of Consumers Seeking Solutions

Our Approach

TARGETED NEUROSCIENCE

CUTTING-EDGETECHNOLOGY

Leverage recent advances

in understanding

neuro-correlates of

advanced meditation

High density EEG

tomography with

source localization

methods, i.e. 3D

imaging.

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High-end, scalable

product/service unlock

deeper benefits of

meditation

HIGH-IMPACT SOLUTION

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One-size fits all or personalization?

Personalization in BCI

What’s possible? We don’t yet know● Spiritual traditions show us the potential of human development.● Can we reduce decades of meditation training to e.g. ~1 hr / day for 1 year?● Aggressive interventions to actively change the brain’s function? Lasting?

It’s time to upgrade humanity’s OS

Or else...