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Economist by training, philosopher by vocation, in his words, “worked in the corporate world, worked in the startup world, sat on the boards, sat on the beach, was employed, was self-employed, was a venture capitalist, was an ‘adventure’ capitalist,” while his passion towards physics and philosophy slowly but surely was brewing in the background. Born and raised in Russia, Alex Vikoulov was growing up a gifted child so much so that his parents transferred him to a lycée with enhanced math and foreign language programs. He studied humanities at Tomsk State University and had his first entrepreneurship experience by running Sibmarket Financial, among the first hedge funds in Russia. He immigrated to the United States in 1994 at the age of 24, Economist by training, philosopher by vocation, in his words, “worked in the corporate world, worked in the startup world, sat on the boards, sat on the beach, was employed, was self-employed, was a venture capitalist, was an ‘adventure’ capitalist,” while his passion towards physics and philosophy slowly but surely was brewing in the background. Born and raised in Russia, Alex Vikoulov was growing up a gifted child so much so that his parents transferred him to a lycée with enhanced math and foreign language programs. He studied humanities at Tomsk State University and had his first entrepreneurship experience by running Sibmarket Financial, among the first hedge funds in Russia. He immigrated to the United States in 1994 at the age of 24, continued his studies in the U.S. where he graduated in 1999 from Armstrong University with degrees in finance and economics.

Alex Vikoulov has a diverse background in fintech and IT industries. Ecstadelic Media Group, PR/digital media and publishing company, is one of his latest projects where he is CEO/Editor-in-Chief. Prior to Ecstadelic Media, he served as CFO and board member of the AI startup Neuromama, Ltd. From 2005 to 2013 held various executive positions, and spent about 3 years as a business consultant in Southeast Asia. From 2001 to 2005, managed San Francisco office of First Data Corp., the largest payment processor in the U.S. From 1999 to 2001, he held a consultant position with Prudential Securities, Inc. From 1990 to 1994, as President & CEO, Vikoulov managed Sibmarket Financial, one of the pioneering hedge funds in the emerging markets, while serving as a stock exchange board member. He started his career at Incombank in 1990 as a statistical analyst.

These days he describes himself as a futurist, evolutionary cyberneticist, philosopher of mind, neo-transcendentalist, digital theologian, transhumanist singularitarian, entrepreneur, media commentator, painter and author. Currently resides in Burlingame, CA (San Francisco Bay Area). ...more

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	The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution by Alex M. Vikoulov (Goodreads Author), Antonin Tuynman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cybernetic Singularity: The Syntellect Emergence (The Cybernetic Theory of Mind Book 3) by Alex M. Vikoulov (Goodreads Author), Antonin Tuynman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	NOOGENESIS: Computational Biology by Alex M. Vikoulov (Goodreads Author), Antonin Tuynman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	TECHNOCULTURE: The Rise of Man (The Cybernetic Theory of Mind Book 2) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Intelligence Supernova: Essays on Cybernetic Transhumanism, The Simulation Singularity & The Syntellect Emergence by Alex M. Vikoulov (Goodreads Author), Antonin Tuynman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Theology of Digital Physics: Phenomenal Consciousness, The Cosmic Self & The Pantheistic Interpretation of Our Holographic Reality (The Science and Philosophy of Information Book 4) by Alex M. Vikoulov (Goodreads Author), Antonin Tuynman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Syntellect Hypothesis: A New Extension to the Gaia Theory

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“The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term 'Gaia' is a network of processes involving feedback tubes. Humans are part of the larger whole, Gaia.” -Fritjof Capra

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SUPERALIGNMENT: The Three Approaches to the AI Alignment Problem | How to Ensure the Arrival of Benevolent Artificial Superintelligence Aligned with Human Goals and Values (The Seminal Papers Series)

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Reality Redefined! Excellent book! For a sequel or prequel, but definitely a must, read/listen to The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution by futurist and evolutionary cyberneticist Alex M. Vikoulov where you'll find many clar ...more
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“When I woke up one morning I got poetically epiphanized: To us, our dreams at night feel “oh so real” when inside them but they are what they are - dreams against the backdrop of daily reality. Our daily reality is like nightly dreams against the backdrop of the larger reality. This is something we all know deep down to be true... The question then becomes how to "lucidify" this dream of reality?”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution

tags: life-as-a-dream, lucid-dreams, simulated-reality

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“By definition, posthumanism (I call it ‘cyberhumanism’) is to replace transhumanism at the center stage circa 2035. By then, mind uploading could become a reality with gradual neuronal replacement, rapid advancements in Strong AI, massively parallel computing, and nanotechnology allowing us to directly connect our brains to the Cloud-based infrastructure of the Global Brain. Via interaction with our AI assistants, the GB will know us better than we know ourselves in all respects, so mind transfer, or rather 'mind migration,' for billions of enhanced humans would be seamless, sometime by mid-century.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, The Intelligence Supernova: Essays on Cybernetic Transhumanism, The Simulation Singularity & The Syntellect Emergence

tags: ai-assistant, cloud, cyberhumanism, global-brain, mind-transfer, mind-uploading, nanotechnology, posthumanism, strong-ai, transhumanism

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“Your Universe is in consciousness. And it’s a teleological process of unfolding patterns...The totality of your digital reality is what your conscious mind implicitly or explicitly chooses to experience out of the infinite.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, Theology of Digital Physics: Phenomenal Consciousness, The Cosmic Self & The Pantheistic Interpretation of Our Holographic Reality

tags: conscious-mind, consciousness, digital-reality, experience, infinite, patterns, teleological-process, unfolding, universe

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tags: life-as-a-dream, lucid-dreams, simulated-reality

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“Technocultural evolution driven by epigenetic and memetic factors, the collective will of humanity to emulate the most successful achievements of Nature with technology, proceeds now millions of times faster than genetic evolution of our species at an ever-accelerating pace.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, TECHNOCULTURE: The Rise of Man

tags: collective-will, cybernetics, epigenetics, evolution, genetics, humanity, memetics, nature, technoculture, technology

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“We all are internal energy of the Universe -- and it's not even a metaphor -- there would be no dynamics whatsoever in the absence of us subjective participants.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, TECHNOCULTURE: The Rise of Man

tags: dynamics, energy, metaphor, participant, participatory-universe, subjective, subjectivity, universe

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“Think of the new conception of time, Digital Presentism, like real-time streaming of progressively generated content in immersive virtual reality. We’re all familiar with online music streaming, too: When you stream music online, every bit is discretely rendered, interpreted and finally interwoven into your unitary experiential reality. Only with Digital Presentism 'music' is also being created in 'real time' as if right from your mind... Since time can’t be absolute but is always subjective, Digital Presentism revolves around observer-centric temporality. What we call ‘time’ is a sequential change between static perceptual 'frames,' it’s an emergent phenomenon, 'a moving image of eternity' as Plato famously said more than two millennia ago.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, The Physics of Time: D-Theory of Time & Temporal Mechanics

tags: d-theory-of-time, digital-presentism, emergent-time, physics-of-time, temporality, time-quotes, virtual-reality

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“I grew up fascinated by such concepts as the Vulcan mind meld, and sometimes thinking about how a mere human could one day transition to the planetary consciousness by fusing his or her mind with other minds. It turned out that future is way more fully loaded with options than I have ever thought possible. Thanks to exponential techno-advances, science fiction turns into science fact, every single day.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution

tags: future, human-mind, mind-meld, planetary-consciousness, science, science-fiction, vulcan

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