Genetic Engineering

InnerSpace Foundation

The InnerSpace Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting neuroengineering approaches for the enhancement of memory and learning--biomedical goals that have the potential to greatly improve the lives of all people, not just a small fraction suffering from a specific malady. People are experiencing an unprecedented information explosion and the naturally evolved mind is drowning in a sea of information. This extreme and debilitating imbalance will only worsen with time. The founders of the InnerSpace Foundation do not believe there is a scientific basis for arbitrary distinctions between ability, inability, and disability; obvious and serious memory and cognitive inabilities plague people across the board, irrespective of education or best efforts at self-improvement, and these inabilities worsen as we age. If the information explosion in the world at large has exceeded the abilities of even extremely intelligent and capable people, the situation within biomedicine is even more daunting, and the costs to all are enormous. A founding philosophy of The InnerSpace Foundation is that the shortest and most efficient path to solving humanity's most serious problems--including providing complete and lasting cures for the most diseased and disabled--is through widespread improvement of memory and mind, rather than through the best efforts of people who are well-meaning but of naturally limited abilities. (47.00)