Engineering X, where X equals serendipity, understanding, or existence. Essays on these themes by members, alumni, and friends of the MIT Synthetic Neurobiology group.
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The Principle of Applied Laziness
It’s popular to say one should keep trying in the face of failure. “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” “Never give in - never, never, never.” But is that always the right strategy? Are there situations where, simply put, the ri...
Anti-advice: the opposite of what experts tell you
“Do you have any advice for me?” It’s a question that one of us (Ed) commonly gets after seminars and at conferences. I never know how to answer the question. Should I recommend that the advice-asker take more risk, or less? Well, the answe...
The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them
Thinking of every possible solution for a given problem can be a tricky task. How can we possibly catalogue all of the solutions that could be done - and then, to choose the optimal path, perhaps one that has never been thought of before?...
The Tiling Tree Method
Over the years, the Synthetic Neurobiology group at MIT has practiced many learnable and teachable creativity and problem solving skills. Our core hypothesis is that creativity, and problem solving, like any other skill, can be learned and...
Involuntary collaboration: a strategy for decentralized science
In most organizations, ranging from startups to academic labs to large companies, the person with whom you work most closely might be someone in the same building, or working under the same boss, or in the same hiring cohort. But what if yo...
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I am the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT, where I lead the Synthetic Neurobiology Group, and am co-founder and co-CEO of the Mindspan Institute. My goal is to understand the nature of existence, and to engineer improvements thereupon.
interested in neuroscience, biotech, cs, music, ethics and why the hell we're here :D
Graduate student at Harvard-MIT HST; Working towards whole brain emulation. Humanist and Transhumanist.
hey, it's nina! i'm a sophomore at harvard who is super interested in studying neurodegeneration and how our brains work at the molecular level. also dabble in creative writing (some of which you'll find here) + running!
By day, I build tools for biology and AI tools that build tools for biology. By night, I try to find some truth and have some fun.
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