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Gingerbread will present one mans take on the current state of nootropics and other cognition-enhancing drugs.

"I will try and explain (to the best of my ability) a bit of what we know about the action of these drugs and why we think we know it."

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Everything is impossible until it isn't.

Every undertaking, defined by the hard limitations at the edges of our possible achievement. Lossless electrical conductivity, human travel beyond the sound 'barrier', running a four-minute mile...each, seen as some unassailable foe until, one-by-one, these milestones were not just approached and then attained, but very often surpassed. With time, these limits transition from the superlative, to the standard, and what once was thought of as impossible, now becomes the benchmark of superior performance. The world of cognition enhancing drugs is no different.

For nearly as long as such structures have been differentiated, the cells of the brain and nervous system have been acknowledged to behave very differently than most of the others in the body. Unlike the perpetual turn over that the rest of the body enjoys, there are only a few restricted areas in the brain and CNS of adult humans where new nerve cells are being regularly created. What you are born with, is what you have to work with.

Or is it?

Reliably producing productive structural, as opposed to solely chemical changes to the brain has long been seen as the 'Holy Grail' of Nootropics research..I am here today to discuss why the term "Four-minute mile" may be a bit more appropriate.

From the explosions of growth created in early childhood and in some illnesses, to the seemingly paradoxical benefits seen with the removal of malfunctioning structures, we are going to examine the sometimes baffling relationship between cognition and the physical structure of the brain, and how maybe, just maybe, there might be something you can do about it.

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Video from DEF CON 24 Biohacking Village (2016)

Gingerbread will present one mans take on the current state of nootropics and other cognition-enhancing drugs. Beginning with the neuro-enhancing drugs of the ancient Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, working our way through the developments of the 1990s and 2000s, and finishing with the chaotic internet connected and unregulated world of today.

[Abridged 30 min version]

Today we will be WARDRIVING.

Using both Windows and the Linux-based Kali, we will be surveying our area for wifi access points and using the information, along with GPS data to construct a map of the radio environment surrounding our lab.

Software:

Kismet
InSSIDer
GPSD
Giskismet
Airmon-ng/Airmon-zc

Hardware:

TL-WN722N Usb Wifi Dongle
GlobalSat BU-353-S4 USB GPS Receiver

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