SCGB-Origins - Bill Newsome (May 5, 2025)

Bill Newsome recounts the origins of the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB), including early conversations with Jim Simons, the pivotal Buttermilk Falls workshop in June, 2012, and subsequent SCGB concept development culminating in the go-ahead signal from the Simons Foundation in fall, 2013. He also offers a larger perspective on the seminal year of 2013 that saw the launch of SCGB, the birth of the US national BRAIN initiative, and the formation of multiple prominent neuroscience efforts around the world. Uploaded 06-10-25 The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) aims to expand our understanding of the role of internal brain processes in the arc from sensation to action, thereby discovering the nature, role and mechanisms of the neural activity that produces cognition. For more information please visit: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/collaborations/global-brain/