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And yet here he is, in his 50,000 square foot mansion, dispensing advice to world leaders and busine
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022844.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…raction of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product is not solely as a philanthropist but as a higher sort of banker or guru or brain—a rich whisperer—making him, in addition to rich himself, arguably, among the most influential people you’ve never heard of. Though, likely, you have hear...

Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029210.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…eurobiology Group Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute, Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences Co-Director, MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering New York Stem Cell Foundation-Robertson Investigator MIT, Room E15-421,...

Seth Lloyd is a theoretical physicist at MIT, Nam P. Suh Professor in the Department of
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016238.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…Human Beings he spells out his thoughts on its application to topics as diverse as Maxwell’s Demon, human language, the brain, insect metabolism, the legal system, the role of technological innovation in government, and religion. These broader applications of cybernetics were an...

7.3 Toward a Formal Characterization of Real-World General Intelligence 137
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013053.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ignal, not with the “external environment” as typically conceived, but rather with a portion of the intelligent agent’s brain that is separate from the cognitive component ® viewing complex goals like true love, world peace and proving interesting theorems as in- direct ways of...

xii Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015686.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…llow free will to enter our Universe. To understand human thinking we would really like to look inside a working human brain. We can’t do this yet. All we can do is observe minds at work when they communicate with one another. If our minds think non-computationally — as I believ...

methods he and others developed for the control of missiles, for example, were later put
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016823.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…owning engineering achievements of the 20th century. In particular, Wiener’s applications of cybernetic concepts to the brain and to computerized perception are the direct precursors of today’s neural-network-based deep-learning circuits, and of artificial intelligence itself. Bu...

nonharmonic frequency encoding parameter spaces fusing, resulting in new periods
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013696.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…nsitive periodic, bursting and chaotic behavior has been found in a peroxidase-oxidase system (Olsen and Degn, 1977). A brain enzyme, substantia nigral dopaminergic tyrosine hydroxylase, manifested different saturation and fluctuation patterns, including bursting and periodicity,...

Hurst Farm Enterprises
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015679.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? Amazing Brain. Human Communication, Creativity & Free Will. JAMES TAGG Hurst Farm Books An Imprint of Hurst Farm Enterprises HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015679

CHAPTER II Cannabis Science 101
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024661.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ic. Myrcene is understood to enable and hasten the psychoactive effect of THC by lowering resistance posed by the blood-brain barrier and increasing the THC saturation capacity of the CB1 receptors. Consuming cannabis with high levels of myrcene may contribute to sedative and rel...

rewarding experiences. Some actions have benign or even beneficial consequences for the welfare of
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012761.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…cess. One reason they do is because eating, or even seeing images of food, no longer delivers the same honey hit to the brain as in their pre-obesity days. The reward system turns off when we turn to excess. This is adaptive because nothing in excess is good. But because the want...

4.4 Hybrid Cognitive Architectures 75
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012991.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… relies on hard-wired architecture and algorithms, intended to mimic the qualitative structure of relevant parts of the brain (and intended to be augmented by learning, which differentiates it from emergentist approaches. As our own CogPrime approach is a hybrid architecture, it...

reciprocal control of the autonomic
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021300.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…the autonomic nervous system. In contrast to the reciprocal control characteristic of autonomic reflexes, higher level brain circuits exert more flexible control over the autonomic nervous system. This can include the classic reciprocal control pattern, but can also include an i...

CAPITAL Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024660.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…nt Report | December 2017 or dissolving with fats, inhibiting serotonin uptake and increasing dopamine activity in the brain. Sci- entists have yet to develop an extensive and detailed understanding of the mechanisms and effects of many terpenes. However, consumption of certain...