WHO WE ARE
FOUNDER AND RESEARCH DIRECTOR
Julia Mossbridge, MA, PhD
I am ruthlessly focused on developing a deep understanding of love, time, technology, and how these human experiences relate to corresponding physical forces. My most recent relevant projects include: Creating a Socratic GPT to guide intelligence analysts through the critical thinking process, leading a diverse team of technologists and designers to create a scalable, self-guided digital tool that increases overall wellbeing and is now being developed further within Native American communities, and leading an international group of AI developers and roboticists toward creating an unconditionally loving robot that reduced anger and cognitive load in humans. Some current affiliations include: Co-founder and Board Chair of the 501c3 nonprofit TILT: The Institute for Love and Time, Senior Distinguished Fellow in Human Potential at Center for the Future Mind (Florida Atlantic University), Senior Data+Intuition Consultant at Tangible IQ, a member of the Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council at the Stimson Center, Human Potential Research Lead for The Telepathy Tapes, the founder of Mossbridge Institute and an author and co-author of numerous books and scientific articles, including Transcendent Mind: Rethinking the Science of Consciousness with Imants Baruss (2017), the first American Psychological Association textbook on consciousness to not assume consciousness is reducible to brain activity.
My postdoctoral work in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition program at Northwestern University led to my pursuing the mechanisms of precognition – the ability to perceive seemingly nonpredictable events. My PhD was in psychoacoustics in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Northwestern University, my MA is in Neuroscience (UC San Francisco), and I was awarded my BA with a minor in computer science and Highest Honors in Neuroscience (Oberlin College).
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Ryan Boudinot
Ryan Boudinot is the author of four books of fiction, including Blueprints of the Afterlife (Grove Atlantic), a finalist for the Philip K Dick Award. He founded Seattle City of Literature, the organization that successfully applied for membership to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. His career in the tech industry has spanned twenty-five years and included work with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Netflix, Expedia, and numerous startups. He was an inaugural member of the University of Washington’s CoMotion Labs Virtual Reality startup incubator and developed content strategy for audio tech R&D lab Immersion Networks. For eight years, Ryan taught graduate-level creative writing, and has led numerous workshops on fiction, essay writing, and literature at organizations including Richard Hugo House and Antioch College.
Ryan’s interests lie in the fertile territory between fiction and the innovations that technology can actually make possible. His proposal for the World Integration Loop, a conceptual framework for integrating earth data with cycles of human motivation and reward, was included in the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence Global Top 100 list of 2021.
Ryan holds an MFA from Bennington College and a BA from The Evergreen State College. He lives in Seattle, across the street from a yoga studio where he spends much of his time.
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Cyndi Coon
Cyndi Coon is a time traveler and rule-bender, nerding out for good using data, science and curious questions as an Applied Experiential Futurist for enterprise, governments, higher education, industry, the military, and private partnerships. She is an Affiliate at the Center for Emergency Management & Homeland Security and is a Co-Chair of the Human Wisdom Committee IEEE Planet Positive Strong Sustainability by Design and the Chief Media Officer for Content Evolution. She leads the i4j (global innovation for jobs workforce) and Coolabilities communities. She is the Founder and Principal Futurist at Applied Futures Lab, Founder at Laboratory5 and Co-Founder of the Threatcasting Lab.
Constellation of Experience
Cyndi has peered into the future of Accessibility, Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Bio-Health, Coolabilities, Covid-19, Design Fiction, Digital Currency, Digital Equity, Disabilities, Gender Equality, Human Ecosystems, [the] Individual, Information Warfare, Leadership, Mis/Dis/Mal Information, Ship Building, Sports, Truth, Workforce, Weaponization and more. Her clients and collaborators include the Army Cyber Institute, BioDesign Institute, Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program, Homeland Security, National Guard, Sandia National Lab, and the US Secret Service, to highlight a few.