Scientific & Technical Team

Adam is a tech inventor focused on AI, embedded systems, and frontier science. He grew up in the consciousness research community, at places like Princeton’s PEAR lab and elsewhere.

Technology advances by trying something new, and he's excited to introduce Entangled as way to push the boundaries and explore the big questions. He’s grateful for his pioneering colleagues and friends.

Damon Abraham, PhD, is an affective science and experimental psychology researcher specializing in emotion, self-regulation, and mental representation. His research also encompasses nonlocal consciousness, transformational technologies, and AI.

Damon is a researcher at Meta, former Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Denver, and former management consultant in New York City.

Schahram Dustdar, PhD, is Professor of Computer Science and director of the Distributed Systems Group at the TU Wien in Austria, and one of the top minds in computer science.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computing (Springer), recipient of the ACM Distinguished Scientist award (2009), the IBM Faculty Award (2012), an elected member of the Academy of Europe, and an IEEE Fellow (2016). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Sevilla, and the University of California at Berkeley. He was also the co-founder and chief scientist of Caramba Labs Software.

Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University. His degrees include BSEE in electrical engineering, magna cum laude with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; MS in electrical engineering and PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For a decade he worked on advanced telecommunications R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories. For over two decades he has been engaged in consciousness research. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, and several Silicon Valley think-tanks, including Interval Research Corporation and SRI International, where he worked on a classified program investigating psychic phenomena for the US government.

He is author or coauthor of over 200 technical and popular articles, and several books including the bestselling The Conscious Universe (HarperOne, 1997), Entangled Minds (Simon & Schuster, 2006), and SUPERNORMAL (Random House, 2013).

John Valentino is the co-founder of Psyleron. He has degrees in engineering and business from Lehigh University, and Princeton University. He was previously Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, and Research Fellow at McKinsey Global Institute. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at Thiel Macro.

Roger Nelson, PhD, is an experimental psychologist. He was Coordinator of Research at the PEAR laboratory at Princeton University from 1980 to 2002, and has directed the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), since its inception in 1997.

Rizwan Virk is a successful entrepreneur, video game pioneer, film producer, venture capitalist, computer scientist, and bestselling author. His books include The Simulation Hypothesis, The Simulated Multiverse, Treasure Hunt, and Zen Entrepreneurship.

Riz founded Play Labs @ MIT, a startup accelerator, and invested in many successful startups including Discord, Theta Labs, Upland and Tapjoy. He is a venture partner at Griffin Gaming Partners, one of the leading video game VC funds, and Manager at Bayview Capital. He is a graduate of MIT in Computer Science, and Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

The first channel of the block is allocated to C1 (Channel 1) to provide guidance to the overall Entangled project. Every user on the network contributes 1 bit per channel, thus allowing the subconscious of every user to ‘vote’ yes/no on important decisions posed to C1, as needed.

C1 has been influential in everything from design choices to selecting experiments. It enables a form of governance by the network, and aligns decisions to a deeper teleology.