reimagining the relationship between humans and our best friends

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<aside> 🌱 The Premise

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1. Dogs can do what humans cannot, such as detecting 28+ diseases in real-time, often with higher accuracies than our best diagnostics.
2. Today, there are more dogs on Earth than ever in human history. The United States had more canines than children in 2020 and data from Brazil, China and India point towards population booms worldwide.
3. For the first time ever, we have the ability to map brain activity using non-invasive, highly portable, and relatively inexpensive devices.

<aside> 💡 The Idea

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Leveraging non-invasive brain-computer interfaces powered by EEG/fNIRS and powerful AI algorithms, we can begin to decipher the canine mind in real time.

This has three major potential cascades —

• Symbiosis - Increasing the bandwidth of human-canine communication, cooperation and welfare.
• Partners not Pets - Increasing affordances available for all dogs to be free-agents capable of providing for each other and our collective health, security and understanding.
• Unleashing Disease-Sniffing Dogs - Real-world applications of canine olfaction to allow for cost-effective, accurate, and non-invasive tests.

<aside> 🧠 The Science

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• Canine Cognitive Neuroscience
• Dogs as Models for Humans
• Disease Detection Dogs

<aside> 🔬 The Tech

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A robust platform to collect and understand canine neural activity is technologically feasible.

• Background of Neurotech + AI

ERP waves from canine olfaction pilot - green and black tea.

<aside> 👁️ The Philosophy

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Dognosis resonates with the trifecta of poiesis technology, dialogical living and nosing towards aligned uplift, articulated in a manifesto concentrate —

Uncannis Familiaris

"Relations are constitutive; dogs and people are emergent as historical beings, as subjects and objects to each other, precisely through the verbs of their relating." Donna Haraway, When Species Meet

<aside> ➡️ Dognosis Now

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• Advisors