The Society of Neural Prosthetics and Whole Brain Emulation Science

"The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory." -- Santiago Ramón y Cajal

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).

Long-term objectives of the society:

• 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).