# Foresight Institute **Domain:** Research Institutions / Neurotechnology / Technological Futures **Doc Type:** Institution node The **Foresight Institute** is a nonprofit supporting research communities concerned with technological futures. Its neurotechnology focus explicitly brings together brain-computer interfaces, whole-brain emulation, and neuro-inspired AI safety through workshops, seminars, and fellowships. [Neurotechnology program](https://foresight.org/focus-areas/neurotechnology/). ## The human-continuity and machine-intelligence junction Foresight provides a direct institutional reference for discussing [[wiki/Whole Brain Emulation|whole-brain emulation]] beside [[wiki/Brain-Computer Interfaces|brain-computer interfaces]] and machine intelligence. The program description identifies a research agenda. The relevant technical and philosophical questions concern what would be reproduced, how that reproduction would be validated, and what relationship it would have to the original subject. Within this corpus, that junction connects [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] with [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. A future machine environment could host human emulations, reconstructed persons, other intelligences, or mixtures of them. Whether a particular person experiences continuity through such a transition remains an open question with its own criteria. ## Place in the research map [[wiki/Convergence Research|Convergence Research]] uses Foresight as the example of an explicitly stated future research horizon, alongside [[wiki/Oden Institute|Oden]]'s computational methods and [[wiki/Santa Fe Institute|Santa Fe]]'s shared scientific questions. This is a comparison of institutional approaches, with each organization's actual projects described in its own entry. [[wiki/Recommended Institutions and Signals|Recommended Institutions and Signals]] · [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]] · [[wiki/Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]]