Dear Consciousness Hackers,

Please join us for an exhilarating discussion of bioengineering, Synthetic Telepathy & superpower empathy with:

ADAM PIORE, author ofThe Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human

GERWIN SCHALK, neuro-engineer, building a"thought helmet"enabling people to communicate telepathically.

DAVID SAUVAGE, Empath (psychic),capable of feeling someone elses feelings in his ownbody.

**COST: $15 Cash**

***WINE WILL BE SERVED***

Why not build better versions of ourselves? Why not enhance, augment, transcend? Why not see how far we can push it?-- Adam Piore, author, The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human

ADAM PIORE, author of The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human, will explore the wayscience & technologyare unlocking untapped resiliencein our minds & bodies.He'll highlight the cutting-edge bioengineers of our time as well as remarkablepeople whobegan life inunremarkable circumstances who soon found themselvesfacing challengesmost of us can hardly imagine.Their storiesshowus where our limits lie & how we mightovercomethem, what we are capable of, & why. Adam is most interested in how technology will not just enhance our physical abilities, but principally, how it will improve our humanity.

One of the groundbreaking neuro-engineers Adam profiles in his book is GERWIN SCHALK, who will discuss his work helping the U.S. Armybuild a "thought helmet", a device that can detect & transmit the unspoken speech of soldiers, allowing them to communicate with one another silently. His work in Synthetic Telepathy has military applications but also clinical ones like giving mute patients the ability to communicate telepathically; his research recording signals from the surface of the brain augur a revolution in wearable interfaces between mind & machine.

Like Gerwin's "thought helmet,"Facebook is building a skullcap able to transmit sentences out of your brain at a rate of 100 words per minute, andElon Musk, founder of Tesla & SpaceX, has formed a company called Neuralinkbuilding brain implants to directly link human minds to computers. Are we all going to be Telepaths one day?

While neuro-engineers work on Synthetic Telepathy, Empaths like DAVID SAUVAGEare capable of feeling someone elses feelings in hisown body, as if those feelings were his own. He "can consciously enter into someones emotional field & figure out what is going on with them.