# Key Insights from #hplusroadmap IRC Discussions

• Participants explored brain uploading techniques, proposing selection for brains with increased modularization and surface-accessible connections between modules to facilitate easier debugging, as well as selecting for brains that can survive flattening to less than 1cm thickness to improve probe accessibility.

• The conversation identified a significant gap in transhumanist literature regarding infrastructure development, noting a "deep split between futurists who explore personal apotheosis and those that explore infrastructure," with recommendations for works by Buckminster Fuller, Paolo Soleri (who coined "arcology"), and Dandridge Cole.

• Discussions on consciousness highlighted how our sense of a unified "self" is largely an illusion created by multiple competing brain systems, raising important questions about what would actually be preserved in mind uploading scenarios.

• Technical conversations covered OpenBCI and EEG equipment developments, including interest in the upcoming $99 OpenBCI Ganglion board compatible with BioEra software for neurofeedback training, and the potential of near-infrared fluorescent proteins for in vivo brain imaging.

• Participants debated the relationship between chronic stress, inflammation, and physical health conditions, referencing research suggesting prolonged stress alters cortisol's effectiveness in regulating inflammatory responses (http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22474371).

• The group discussed GitXiv, a platform connecting computer science papers from arXiv with their corresponding GitHub repositories, making research code more accessible for replication and extension of academic work.