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The following essays serve as white papers. Their main purpose is to enable a more complete understanding of the mind-to-brain mapping method developed by Mind Brain Insights, LLC.

The MA Mind/brain Model

This essay summarizes how the mind can be used to reverse-engineer the brain. It's called the MA (Memory Activation) Model. It features the mind's "parts" or cognitive ontology, and how these act (and interact) through space and time in the brain. The model can be understood in stages, not all at once on the first read. Why? Because it's based on a new cognitive neuroscience theoretical framework, or paradigm. Also the subject matter (the mind's activity inside the brain) is an enormous topic...

Mind and Brain

The idea the subjective or experiential mind and the physical brain are closely related is well-established. In fact, the whole point of having a brain — other than to regulate the body — is to create our mental states and processes. These include sensation and perception…

BCI Brain Signal Classifiers: Part I

The ability to control an external device via thought has the potential to enhance humanity greatly. Applications nearing commercial viability include control of neuroprosthetics, computers (for spelling, research, communication…), phones, drones and VR worlds. Despite great progress however much work remains…

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    Protected: Empowering the BCI User

    A BCI user is empowered by a BCI device whenever it improves their quality of life in some way. But how else might the user be empowered? I argue there are a number of ways that center around the user’s mind. The user’s mind includes an intention or mental command within a larger context of mind (perception, thought, emotion, executive control, goals, imagination, inner speech…) and context (environment, situation, recent performance…)…

    Protected: Beyond Task-Based, to Mind-Based Neuroimaging

    Task-based functional neuroimaging has been a highly effective tool for advancing neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience and brain science generally. It’s generated a vast amount of valuable experimental data. And it continues to illuminate not only on how brains function in relation to tasks, but the mental states and processes which these tasks presumably elicit…

    Protected: Re-thinking the Mind

    The subjective mind is not taken very seriously by brain science. It often views mental states, at least their immaterial aspect (perception, thought, feeling, meaning…), as a kind of pseudo-phenomenon. Consciousness is even said to be an illusion or hallucination; or an epiphenomenon (having no affect on the physical brain).

    There are actually good reasons for this. First, no one knows what the mind is. No precise, agreed upon definition of it exists (Poldrack & Yarkoni, 2016)…

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