INTRODUCING MORPHEUS-1
The world’s first multi-modal generative ultrasonic transformer designed to induce and stabilize lucid dreams.
Available for beta users Spring 2024
Prophetic has successfully engineered a focused ultrasound system and has started neurostimulation.
On April 16th, Prophetic's co-founders
@EricWollberg
&
@weslouis_
were the first people to receive stimulation from an internally designed and manufactured ultrasound transducer.
Unlike LLMs, Morpheus-1 is not prompted with words and sentences but rather brain states.
And instead of generating words, Morpheus-1 generates ultrasonic holograms for neurostimulation to bring one to a lucid state.
Here’s a look at our full closed-loop system:
EEG -> Morpheus -> tFUS 🔄
Given an initial brain state, the transformer generates spatiotemporal sequence of neuromodulation to increase gamma frequencies.
This system adapts as the brain changes adjusting the tFUS targets in real
Qualia Takeoff in The Age of Spiritual Machines
When we started Prophetic our aim was a device that induced lucid dreams, but we can do so much more.
Here is our vision for our technology - strap in - we're headed for a qualia takeoff scenario:
THE QUALIA FACTORY
Yesterday, we showcased the world's first ultrasonic transformer: Morpheus-1
Today, we are releasing our conception of a new type of infrastructure to ensure our model scales on high quality neuroimaging data - The Qualia Factory
Tomorrow there will be an announcement.
On Friday, we will be posting an expanded vision for Prophetic.
And every day thereafter will be dedicated to realizing that vision.
Morpheus-1 is a 103 million parameter transformer model trained on 8 GPUs for 2 days.
We engineered this from scratch and filed a provisional utility patent application.
We’re pleased to be recognized by the San Francisco Design Week Awards. The Halo received an honorable mention for the Emerging Technology category last month.
@SFDesignWeek
awards celebrate designers whose work contribute towards a positive future for society.
We call it Morpheus-1 because, in greek mythology, Morpheus is the god of dreams. He is often depicted as a messenger of the gods, delivering messages through dreams, particularly those related to human emotions and experiences.
Since the beginning, Prophetic’s mission has been to give humanity the tools to explore and expand consciousness.
Morpheus-1 is a leap forward in that mission, moving us closer to ultrasonically inducing conscious experiences on-demand and changing the world forever.
Meet Moses - our new 3D hydrophone scanning tank.
This testing tool will inform and validate our transducer designs and simulations. This will accelerate our hardware prototyping process considerably.
Here you can see a simulation of our temporally placed transducer running on our simulation software.
The next step is to connect Morpheus-1 with the simulation.
Then it’s on to Moses and real world testing.
Nearly all transcranial focused ultrasound researchers operate in some fashion where they collect fMRI, use statistic analysis (linear regressions) or elementary ML to identify targets, and select the most significant, failing to capture the full picture of neural activity.
Beta Program Update
The first 50 participants out of the nearly 4,000 people have been selected. Participants will receive an email on Monday with next steps.
Selection criteria:
1. Proximity to our office
2. Requisite brain scans
3. Reservation number
If you weren't selected,
We equate this statistical paradigm to playing and holding one note on a trumpet. We want to create a symphony of neural activity.
This is the first model that can fully utilize the capabilities offered by multi-element tFUS and create symphonies.
Generating ultrasonic pulses and creating pressure scans.
These pulses are the atomic unit of ultrasound protocols - which we then use to induce experiences.
With the pressure scans matching our simulations - we can start neurostimulation.
We hand make our Fibonacci spiral multi-element ultrasound arrays. Fibonacci sequence arrays improve beam forming, steering capabilities, and holography generation.
We hand make our Fibonacci spiral multi-element ultrasound arrays. Fibonacci sequence arrays improve beam forming, steering capabilities, and holography generation.
We started this journey nine months ago.
In that time we have:
1. Built our design prototype of the halo
2. Built the world’s first multimodal neural transformer
3. Built the capacity to design and manufacture our own transducers
4. And now, start inducing conscious
Why are we doing Halo Reservations?
The launch of our non-invasive neurostimulation device, "The Halo", was launched alongside a reservation program.
This is why.
Transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation is an incredibly safe and well understood technology. TFUS is defined as Low-Intensity Ultrasound, utilizing similar intensities as diagnostic ultrasound.
Some people have brought up concerns related to High-Intensity Ultrasound which
Today, we are setting sail on an adventure to give the world the ability to explore the state-space of conscious experiences.
Like all great adventures there will be trials and tribulations, but our team will not stop until we have achieved our vision.
More on that tomorrow.
Our Headband - The Halo
Our headband uses a combination of ultrasound and machine learning models (created using EEG & fMRI data) that allow us to detect when dreamers are in REM to induce and stabilize lucid dreams.
We have also secured an air mattress for the office and will begin working on inducing the experience that we know most of you who follow us excited for - lucid dreaming.
We made the decision to build everything from our simulation software to our transducers ourselves, so we are set up to accelerate our progress considerably from here.
To give you a sense, we produced 70 transducers of various designs last week alone.
Blog 011 - Neuroscience is pre-paradigmatic. Consciousness is why.
By
@erikphoel
In this article, Erik argues that the field of neuroscience is pre-paradigmatic in the Kuhnian sense of the word.
The persistent mystery of consciousness shows why.
In lucid dreams, you can prompt your unconscious via dream characters, like you would GPT-4 via ChatGPT.
What if we could prompt them for novel insights into consciousness?
What is a lucid dream?
Lucid dreams are a type of dream where the dreamer becomes aware that they are asleep. They are purely phenomenological experiences with little or no external sensory input.
Tomorrow, we will publish our first piece of content explaining all of this in greater detail and how all of these pieces fit together into one grand vision.
Prometheus stole fire from the gods, we will steal dreams from the prophets.
They called it Medicine’s Best Kept Secret — at UCSF today.
You have probably seen ultrasound images of babies, but if you arrange an array of ultrasound transducers to focus to a point, they can manipulate cells and membranes like a magnifying glass focusing sunlight to a
Blog 015 - AI keeps getting better at talking about consciousness
@erikphoel
"For we have a very good idea of how to create artificial intelligence and very little understanding of what consciousness is, or when entities (artificial or not) possess it."
What can one do in a lucid dream?
1. Productivity
In lucid dreams, you are freed from conventional laws of physics: gravity, conservation of energy, and conservation of mass. This makes the experience the ultimate sandbox for divergent problem-solving.
Our main focus is now the replication of two previously induced experiences by tFUS - focus & positive mood.
We have gone through the research exhaustively, and have all the parameters and experimental set ups.
We actually use these parameters to design our transducers.
To be clear:
We will enable you to prompt a model with words to visualize your dreams and share them with others
This is not going to be generated with your neural data
Read more on our philosophy around this here:
“Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.”
- William James
DREAMING OF A THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
We are excited to release our first piece of content.
In it, we try to explain the enormity of our vision, introduce an overview of what we are building, and leave you all dreaming of an extraordinary future.
While focused ultrasound typically has an ellipsoidal focal area, it’s possible to create different shapes with acoustic holography
Here is an example of a simulation we ran at
@PropheticAI
where we generated an acoustic hologram that mimics heighten activity observed in fMRI
Blog 010 - Ultrasonic Transformers: Towards a Noetic Frontier
In this article we expound on the technologies behind tFUS, ultrasonic transformers, and project a data driven image in the future that follows a trend we call Wes’s Law.
2. Metaphysical Contemplation
Lucid dreams give humanity an interface to explore the state space of consciousness, where one can test epistemological methods to answer some of the biggest fundamental metaphysical questions, such as:
What is consciousness?
What is reality?
The Prophetic App
We run our proprietary ML models, trained with EEG and fMRI data of active lucid dream states. This helps improve the efficacy and stability of the ultrasound.
Users can also track their sleep and upload their lucid dream data to improve our models.
@avaa411
Not absurd at all!
Our app will have two sides to it:
1) device pairing and metrics
2) a dream journal meets a social network, that will also use GenAI to create a visualization of your dream to share
Schrodinger posited the existence of a “highly order crystal” that directed biological processes - well before the discovery of DNA.
We ask you to imagine another highly ordered crystal, but instead of directing proteins - directs Qualia.
3. Recreation
In a lucid dream, the only limiting factor to your experience is your imagination. You can construct and explore extraordinary environments, speak with dream characters, and even fly.
Design
The design is a testament to the symbiotic relationship we have fostered between the wearer and the Halo. We internalized the hardware components to minimize pressure points and remain gentle on the skin.
Blog Post 003
Noetic Sovereignty in the Age of Experience Machines
In the age of Experience Machines, it is critical that we create a framework to guide us on this new frontier of consciousness technology - we are calling for Noetic Sovereignty.
Reserve your Halo
You can put down a $100 deposit (credited against the cost of the headband) to reserve your Halo.
The first 1,000 deposits get their prophetic app subscription free for a year.
You will also get access to...
Blog 008 - The Effects of Lucid Dreaming in Waking Life*
By -
@sterlingcrispin
"We experience a kind of parallel reality when we dream, a projection of our waking life that shines across the ocean of our consciousness."
Blog 014 - The unbearable whiteness of Neptune
By
@erikphoel
"Maybe one day it will sputter out altogether and only
whiteness will remain, even inside our heads...
...Or maybe not. Maybe one day that small irreducible flicker will become a flame, and then there will be a roar
Exclusive events - eg. talks from leaders in the field of consciousness.
Project updates - newsletter & videos that show our progress.
Prophetic Store discount - coming soon.*
And much more