OpenBCI:How-to Hack Consciousnesswith new, cheap, fun, open-source, biosensing hardware and software!

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OpenBCI stands for open-source brain-computer interface (BCI). The OpenBCI Board is a versatile and affordable analog-to-digital converter that can be used to sample electrical brain activity (EEG), muscle activity (EMG), heart rate (EKG), and more. It is compatible with any type of electrode and is supported by an ever-growing, open-source framework of signal processing applications.

Artists, co-founders, & creative technologistsJoel Murphy & Conor Russomannowill demonstrate & discuss getting started & exploring mind-body consciousness with OpenBCI. Other topics may includeCrowdsourcing capital. DARPA. Makers. Consciousness. Mind. Art. Society. Meditation. Future fun!

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Learn more at the OpenBCI website.

What isConsciousness Hacking?

Consciousness Hacking is a hands-on approach to tools for self-exploration, in order to change the way we think, feel, and liveas individuals and together. Science increasingly recognizes something thats been the very substrate of spiritual and religious traditions for thousands of years: Through focused self-awareness, we can fundamentally change our conscious experience. Consciousness Hacking NYC meet ups focus on tools, technologies & praxislike apps, tools, projects, technologies, objects, molecules, and sense-oriented experiences. Our goal is to ferment and inspire a field of cross-pollination and creative ideas regarding consciousness from a robust variety of domains, communities, expertise and interests. Looking for colleagues and collaborators? Lets share our projects and support new ideas! (Think more along the DIY of the Makers-movement, and less about philosophy or theory!) Cybernetic theorywhich holds that the mind and body can be hacked through a range of spiritual techniques and scientific technologiesserves as one key source of inspiration. Consciousness Hacking takes a similarly holistic approach to changing the world through individual self-realization and transformation, an inside out perspective on how technology can serve us by changing our relationship to the world, rather than the world itself.