To: Jeffrey Epsteinfieevacalion©gmail.com]
From: John Brockman
Sent: Tue 8/11/2009 9:16:10 PM
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL

You will lose half the people you want by involving Templeton. The other half will go along but be unhappy. JB

on Aug 11, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote:

I intend to fully fund the following gatherings ( meetings with lots of interaction hikes coffee. cross pollination ) over the next year
1 Evolutionary Code dynamics.. a brand new field that encompasses, game theory, virus dynamics, (both computers and biological). , cryptography , and genetics.
2. Synthetic General Intelligence.. encompassing, signal processing, statistical and machine learning, virtual world robots. new programing architecture. Ants termites wasps.
3 Conference on Power -- Its definition political financial,intellectual , physical, includes reputation, awe, trust, deception, reciprocity. - how it is used, why it is sought, group selection and behavior.
4, The World Financial system .. is it archaic, can you use the Internet to create anew model, social, repercussions. what is value, worth , mark to market, what is money, the new debt. computers and their effect on the system - including unemployment. Markets and sophisticated derivatives.
5. The power laws --their derivation and possible implications. zipf pareto etc... scaling . metabolism , human trait distributions ( including intelligence), the ecology of economic systems. their geometric equivalents.
6. Why happiness is overrated. -- cultural definitions contentment fulfillment, , narcotics, hallucinogens, psycho-pharmaceuticals -
7. Music and the Brain. is anticipation -resolution , rhythm vertical and horizontal (melody) harmonies an insight into the structure of the brain.
-- core participants
1 martin novak, avi wigner. corina , church, nathan wolfe, lander , eres leiberman rep of NSA ,stodden
2. shank, minsky, bratenburg, kotik- goertzel , , 3. , george mitchell. ehud barak, tony blair larry summers, bloomberg. celebrity, sports star.
4. nathan mryvold, hillis, lloyd, jes staley, jamie dimon. henry jarecki,
5.. murray gellman, Geoffrey west, howard gardner, differential geometerist
6. marty seligman, richard axel, steve kosslyn,
7. mark tramo, , tony demasio, gerald edelman , ****************************************************
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