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# Brett Kagan **Entity class:** Person **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] ## Definition **Brett Kagan** is a person. [[wiki/Cortical Labs|Cortical Labs]] is led by **Brett Kagan**. Current page: CEO & Chief Scientist, co-founder. The entry centers on this person's documented work, affiliations, and institutional roles, separating those facts from the activities of collaborators and organizations around them. ## Relationships  This entry is routed through [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] and [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]], [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]], [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], and [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Key Relationships - [[wiki/Cortical Labs|Cortical Labs]] is led by **Brett Kagan**. Current page: CEO & Chief Scientist, co-founder.  ## Research Edges  #### Master relationship graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Neurotechnology Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Neurotechnology Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 315 — [[wiki/Cortical Labs|Cortical Labs]] `led_by` → this entry** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `CORTICAL_COMPANY`. Current page: CEO & Chief Scientist, co-founder.   #### Consciousness mapping and transfer graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] · [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 315 — [[wiki/Cortical Labs|Cortical Labs]] `led_by` → this entry** — **PRIOR_NEUROTECH_VERIFIED**; evidence `CORTICAL_COMPANY`. Current page: CEO & Chief Scientist, co-founder.  ## Research Inferences  These entries translate the forward-looking register in [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]] into ordinary wiki prose. The tier labels apply to the inference, not automatically to every factual anchor inside it. The interpretive frame comes from [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]. Collection route: [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **INF-0152 — Established.** DishBrain's roughly 800,000 neurons on a CMOS array learning Pong, and the same substrate class later learning Doom, established that cultured tissue performs closed-loop goal-directed adaptation. The lineage from that demonstration to a commercial rack took four years.