Personal Transhumanism Group

The mission of the personal transhumanism group is to rationally evaluate, generate, and pursue effective means of augmenting minds, bodies, lifespans, and quality of life.

Past Presentations & Meeting Notes

First Meeting Notes Contains more elaboration on goals and techniques, and a long list of potential meeting topics for the future.
Smart Drugs:  Piracetam Presentation on the effects of Piracetam.  Piracetam shows great effects in protecting brains against toxins, anoxia, and trauma.  It also shows at least some effects in enhancing cognition.
Raw Piracetam Abstracts A collection of abstracts of journal articles on Piracetam.  Used to create the Piracetam presentation.
Exercise Effects on Health A presentation on the effects and proper techniques of stretching and aerobic and anaerobic exercise.
Overview of Brainwaves A presentation discussing electrical activity in the brain, and how it correlates to various brain states and capabilities.  Good pre-reading for the EEG presentation.
Building an EEG A presentation on low-cost techniques we could use to build a multi-channel EEG to study our own brainwaves.
Detoxification Program A document about a detoxification program that Lily went through.
Current Work in Nanotechnology A presentation on current work in bottoms-up nanotechnology.
Cognitive & Neurophysiological Effects of Marijuana A survey of published work on the cognitive effects of marijuana and the neurophysiological mechanisms of its action.
Cancer Nantzee's presentation on molecular causes of cancer and her own lab's research.
Stem Cells Current and future directions in stem cell research.