The Society of Neural Prosthetics and Whole Brain Emulation Science

The focus of the Society of Neural Prosthetics and Whole Brain Emulation Science is on the enabling and maintaining of collaborative networks of individuals who express through their work a special interest in that area of applied neuroscience that explores the progression from neural prosthetic procedures to the prosthetic emulation of whole brain function.

Near-term objectives of the society:

• Foster interdisciplinary collaboration between scientists and medical practitioners involved with the development of prosthetic devices for the many different faculties and functional components of the brain.
• Emphasize the study of integration between the developing neural prosthetics for different functional components of the brain.
• Further the development of increasingly accurate whole brain emulation in a computational substrate that is accessible for the study of human brain function from the level of neural activity (neurophysiology) to the level of whole brain system function (psychology).

• Apply whole brain emulation medical procedures to otherwise incurable neural disease (e.g. ALS), deterioration (e.g Alzheimer's, Parkinson's) or damage (e.g. brain injury).
• Apply whole brain emulation as a precautionary strategy for the human social and ecological system (in a paradigm similar to the preservation of endangered species through cryonic storage of sperm and other reproductive cells).