By Link Daniel — I have been working on a network to create virtual dreams as part of an open and permissionless brain computer protocol. In January 2021, I published a whitepaper that outlines the direction of this network and the purpose of virtual dreams. I recommend reading the whitepaper first before reading the…

By Link Daniel Original Publication Date: January 21, 2021 — References and further reading Arnold-Foster, Mary. (1921). Studies in dreams. New York: The MacMillan Company. Aristotle. (350 BC). On the Soul. Baird, B., Mota-Rolim, S.A., Dresler, M. (2019). The cognitive neuroscience of lucid dreaming. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. Bear, M.F., Connors, B.W., Paradiso, M.A. (2015). Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain. …

By Link Daniel Original Publication Date: January 21, 2021 — Principles Decentralized. The future of technology rests on decentralized principles. The network needs to be open and permissionless in order to ensure access from the widest and most diverse group of stakeholders. We also need to make sure that the network will not be turned off by any nefarious actors. Incentives…

By Link Daniel Original Publication Date: January 21, 2021 — Another invisible frontier that is emerging is the journey inwards. With the advent of brain computer interfaces, we will create a novel kind of internet bridging brains and computers. It will enable us to cure all kinds of diseases and enable physical and mental mobility in ways that would seem…

By Link Daniel Original Publication Date: January 21, 2021 — Standing at the beginning of a new decade that will enable things most would not deem possible, we must have the courage to do the impossible and dream a new dream. Let us ask how we can achieve what was never done before. What are things that we can invent…

By Link Daniel Original Publication Date: January 21, 2021 — W e introduce a token into our network as a way to incentivize early stakeholders to bootstrap the network and allow them to govern the direction of the network for the future. The plan is to distribute the token among the widest group of stakeholders over time who have provided…

By Link Daniel Original Publication Date: January 21, 2021 — The purpose of the network is to accelerate the advent of brain computers as they only appear in our imagination today and create virtual dreams as a novel medium to explore the nature of reality. …

By Link Daniel Original Publication Date: January 21, 2021 — Today the brain computer industry is mostly comprised of private entities, academic research teams and government organizations. Governments support academic teams or startups with financing and academic teams provide startups with talent. In some cases those academic teams spin out startups on their own. This may be too simplistic of…

By Link Daniel Original Publication Date: January 21, 2021 — The problem is how do we get information out of the brain or record neural activity and how do we get information into the brain or stimulate neurons in such a way that neural patterns are changed. It needs to be a two-way feedback loop between the brain and computer…