These short trailers illustrate the intense stress of the undercover operator. Dr. Chris Macedonia, who was the DARPA Program Manager for Accelerated Learning, told me something after my presentation that inspires me to this day: “Marcus, where I sit, I see all...
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Coming Soon: A Chat With Dr. Chris Berka, CEO of Advanced Brain Monitoring
I received a delightful invitation today from Dr. Chris Berka, who read my post NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND THE REAL FIGHT. We're coordinating a discussion ABM will record and post on their social medias about how her work has inspired, influenced and reinforced my own...
Neurophysiology and The Real Fight
Geoff Thompson is one of the founders of reality-based self defense. Geoff, and my friends Dennis Martin and John Brawn, were the reasons I went to the UK in the 90s to test neural-based training on the street. If you want to see how training works in a street...
Less Is More
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential —- Bruce Lee When I’m asked to prove that accelerated learning combined with stress inoculation holds up in the real world, I never cite studies and I rarely mention all the lives saved by my...
Preconscious Processing and Training Design
From Amazon: Norman Dixon's PRECONSCIOUS PROCESSING integrates data from various research areas concerned with the effects of unconscious perception and the preconscious antecedents of subjective experience. Discusses the possible nature and origin of preconscious...
Intuition, Pattern Recognition, and Cognitive Dominance
One of my favorite films is the Japanese classic YOJIMBO (Bodyguard) by Akira Kurasawa https://archive.org/details/Yojimbo\_201703 The storyline concerns a ronin samurai who wanders into a conflict between two village factions. Using his psychological skills in...
The Hyper-Enabled Human
This coming Friday, 28 August 2020, Elon Musk will unveil the latest on his neural link project to directly connect the human brain to the internet. See the link [here] and if you’re interested in the white paper he previously released detailing the specifics of his...
The Rise of Sky-Net
This milestone in artificial intelligence caught my attention the other day: https://screenrant.com/ai-beats-air-force-dogfight/ Multiple teams of defense contractors hawking their latest AI/deep learning packages had the opportunity to compete in a DARPA sponsored...