I'm generally a complex and private person at first. I won't reveal most on a medium such as this, but I can open up quickly if I respect someone that I am talking, or chatting with. Some say I come off as cocky, or snobby at first, but I'm just very guarded and often shy upon introduction. I meet people and immediately begin analysing them, seeing if they are honest enough to get to know better. Liars don't stand much of a chance of getting to know me. I prefer honest, straight-forward, intelligent, goal-oriented, fun loving acquantances and consider myself to share the same qualities.
I have degrees in neuroscience and psychology and am a practicing neuroscientist. I study synaptic plasticity of learning and memory in hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, auditory cortex and somatosensory cortex. I work in electrophysiology, immunohistochemistry, histology and what other -ology that may lead me to a better publication. I'm mainly interested in mitogen activated protein kinases, alpha-7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtype and CaMKII involvement in synaptic plasticity, but I participate in research varying from cortical mapping to genechip projects responsible for identifying important genetic components of plasticity. I've been published and have a few in the works now as well.
I also work extensively with artificial neural network AI. I've created novel AI that uses neural and glial properties to learn to communicate via chat, forums, email and voice recognition software. I am currently attemping to apply the research to somatosensory mapping. I've tested a few of the AIs online in various forms and they seem to learn very well. I've also used variations of the AIs to learn from musicians and audience reactions to make electronic music. One of the bands that I am in uses these AIs to produce live music during shows as well as for recordings. AI, robotics, cybernetics, biomimetics, computational neuroscience, computer programming and neuroscience are all useful with these projects and are therefore major interests of mine.
I've been working on two books for a little over two years now. One involves futurism and incorporates a lot of recent scientitific research into support for predictions that will lead thousands of years into the future. Ray Kurzweil and Michio Kaku are major influences related to this work. My other book is a fictional novel that takes a set of characters through thousands of years into the future to finally a point of perfect stagnation. I'm using this novel to better explain the futurism presented in the other book to those that may not be interested in reading a scientifically based book. I hope to have both of these completed within two years.
Other things I am involved in include industrial noise bands, jazz bands, punk bands, music business, website design, internet businesses. computer programming, photography, robotics, metal art work, junk art, graphic art and writing.
My personality is built around honesty. I can't stand liars, bullshitters, frauds, users, asskissers or overly dramatic people. I'm a very busy person and don't need acquantances that are going to disrupt my life with problems associated with those types. Don't bother to lie to me to get me to like you. If you need to do that, then we won't be friends for very long simply based on you lying to begin with. If you are a nice honest person and fun to be around, then just give that a chance without the lies and I imagine we will get along well.
I often attend music shows, fashion shows, fetish shows, plays, lectures and science conferences. I also love bookstores, libraries, the beach, old dirty bars, fetish clubs and way too much to list here.
