What I'm doing now

I'm finishing up my master's thesis (and fMRI paper, and neural spike train AI analysis paper) at U. Chicago. My thesis is on the social neuroscience of how real and perceived empathy relate to motor system functionality.

I'm also working on a major project called Make Your Laws.

I help run the Language Creation Society, hack things, give talks, and occasionally consult.

Talk to me about:

• cognitive neuroscience of empathy
  • accuracy vs intensity of emotional perceptions
  • neural correlates of and methods to create high empathy
  • mirror neurons
  • objective empathy measurements as predictive of learning of complex motor tasks
• brain/computer interfaces
• meditation & metacognitive qualia
  • contrastive neural correlates of different meditative techniques
  • objective optimization of meditative techniques
  • quales of consciousness proprioception
• practical AI
• social distance metrics on large-scale communications data
• text classification
• any-hat hacking, Ruby/Rails, p2p botnets, practical e-democracy, smart social games
• conlanging, tactile language, non-linear writing, polyglotism, ASL singing, poetry
• alchemy, gnosticism, agnosticism, magic, meditation, worldview-multiplism, Discordianism
• empathy, vegetarianism, aikido, friendship
• sapiosexuality, bisexuality, polyamory, non-genderedness, hedonism
• cathood, cat owneeship
• piano, harpsichord, ocarina, Iron Chef WTF, costuming

This site was last updated 30 Dec 2011.