From: marc hauser To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: Re: update Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:46:09 +0000 nice! On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> wrote: got it On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:33 AM, marc hauser < > wrote: jeffrey we could certainly do a video conference. on traveling machine, this is VR! sorry if i didn't clarify. you have to have people in the VR machine, hooked up to heart rate, skin conductance and in the Rolls Royce version, ERPs (for brain activation). The technology must travel. It is not simply seeing 2D, but seeing and being in VR, and having all the autonomic measures going. The system now has realistic touch, so that when you push fatso onto the train tracks, you actually feel the resistance. And this is why the different clinical populations are so interesting, because you can systematically pick off the requisite mechanisms. Antonio is particularly excited about this because it would directly test some of the ideas that he and i have re the computations underlying consciousness and bodily states, how abstract judgment and action dissociate, and so on. does this make sense? will let antonio know. -marc On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail cam> wrote: what about a video conference ?„ why do yo have to travel with the machine, can't it be done remotely. Re call with tony„ any day/night next week On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:57 PM, matt hauser < > wrote: Jeffrey a couple updates. first, not as easy as one would think to recruit the "team." Damasio is on the A team, but is swamped for a couple of months. he is key, and i know that you know each other. two others, both in england, are tied up as well, but are going to get back to me. one, mel slater, is a computer guy, and does the VR work. the second, essi viding, does behavioral genetics, imaging, and clinical populations, aimed at identifying genetic markers that are predictive of psycho