Alan Rosen
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Alan Rosen is a robotic neurobiologist, machine consciousness designer, space systems engineer-scientist, and nuclear physicist, known for his design and development of robotic machines that exhibit characteristics of human intelligence, consciousness, and emotions.
and supports Darwinian
Reconstructionist Jewish
institutions. His parents, born in Poland, emigrated to Israel in 1922, with the ideal of building a homeland for the Jews.
In 1936, the family of four, now consisting of 6-year-old Elaine and 9-year-old Alan emigrated to the USA. Alan Rosen served in the US Navy during World War II (1944–1948), and earned a BA-physics, BS-physics, and PhD-Nuclear Physics in 1958. Elaine, his younger sister, is a committed Jehovah Witness.
Alan married his colleague fellow physicist Anda Meisels in 1956 and divorced in 1985. He has 5 sons from that marriage, 2 of them, David B. and Mark A. Rosen contributing to the field of Robotic Neurobiology. David B. Rosen is co-author on many of the Rosen's robotic neurobiological publications. Alan re-married in 1985 chemist Alla Golovko and has one daughter who graduated from NYU
. She is currently attending Law School. She is not yet practiced in all areas of the law.
business area, and a laboratory
director of the Space Sciences Laboratory
. In 1959, when he was hired by TRW Inc., he was a professor of physics
and mathematics
, at the University of Southern California
. At this time, he is a member of the IEEE-computational Intelligence Society, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, International Neural Network Society (INNS), and other neuroscience societies. He is the author of 4 books and published a large number of scientific papers in the peer-reviewed literature.
Rosen's specialty is systems engineering and reverse engineering the Darwinian adaptations of biological organs, with emphasis on the human brain and somatic sensory systems. For the past 15 years, working with his son, David B. Rosen, he has reverse-engineered the total functional operation of the human brain, human consciousness, human emotion, human speech comprehension and verbalization, and human intelligence. His robotic neurobiological designs lead to advances in the field of humanoid robotic engineering, neurobiology, psychology
, psychiatry
, somatic
and autonomic medicine, education
, and sociobiology
.
and the consciousness
and emotional characteristics associated with it, is an organic Darwinian
adaptation, genetically designed with consciousness and emotional drives so as to statistically enhance the survival of the human species in its environmental niche
. His controversial theories are outlined in 3-publications-available for viewing at the MCon.org website:
Youth
Alan Rosen was born in Israel to Orthodox Jewish parents. He rejects AtheismAtheism
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...
and supports Darwinian
Darwinism
Darwinism is a set of movements and concepts related to ideas of transmutation of species or of evolution, including some ideas with no connection to the work of Charles Darwin....
Reconstructionist Jewish
Reconstructionist Judaism
Reconstructionist Judaism is a modern American-based Jewish movement based on the ideas of Mordecai Kaplan . The movement views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization. It originated as a branch of Conservative Judaism, before it splintered...
institutions. His parents, born in Poland, emigrated to Israel in 1922, with the ideal of building a homeland for the Jews.
In 1936, the family of four, now consisting of 6-year-old Elaine and 9-year-old Alan emigrated to the USA. Alan Rosen served in the US Navy during World War II (1944–1948), and earned a BA-physics, BS-physics, and PhD-Nuclear Physics in 1958. Elaine, his younger sister, is a committed Jehovah Witness.
Alan married his colleague fellow physicist Anda Meisels in 1956 and divorced in 1985. He has 5 sons from that marriage, 2 of them, David B. and Mark A. Rosen contributing to the field of Robotic Neurobiology. David B. Rosen is co-author on many of the Rosen's robotic neurobiological publications. Alan re-married in 1985 chemist Alla Golovko and has one daughter who graduated from NYU
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
. She is currently attending Law School. She is not yet practiced in all areas of the law.
Academic career
- 1954–1972 Dr. Rosen was Lecturer and assistant Professor of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
(intermittently). - 1963–64 Adjunct Professor at UC BerkeleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, UCLAUniversity of California, Los AngelesThe University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
, UCSDUniversity of California, San DiegoThe University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
, and UC RiversideUniversity of California, RiversideThe University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system. UCR is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United...
. Statewide coordinator and Lecturer of a course called space physics, based on a text book of that same title by Alan Rosen, and published by John Wiley & Son. - 1972 Adjunct Professor. Los Angeles Valley College: Bioelectricity: Electric and Magnetic measurements in Man.
- 1980: consultant, lecturer and advisor to various universities under the Visiting Scientist Program in Physics (VSPP) sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, under a grant from the National Science Foundation
- Adjunct Professor at USCUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
; presented a graduate course in Spacecraft Systems Design.
Robotic neurobiology
- 1970–1971 Principal investigator with a research grant from the NIH Heart and Lung Institute to study the vector magnetocardiographic waveform generated by the human heart. Published 4 papers on "Magnetic Recordings of the Heart's Electrical Activity with a Cryogenic Magnetometer". J. Appl. Phys. 42:10 p.3682 Sept. 1971
- In 1993, Founded the Machine Consciousness., after retiring from TRW, with 34 years experience in systems Engineering and Technical direction (SETD), under the tutelage of Reuben Mettler, Dean WooldridgeDean WooldridgeDean Everett Wooldridge was a prominent engineer in the aerospace industry....
, Simon RamoSimon RamoSimon "Si" Ramo is an American physicist, engineer, and business leader. He led development of microwave and missile technology and is sometimes known as the father of the intercontinental ballistic missile...
, and others now regarded as the greatest systems engineers of that generation. (The name "Machine Consciousness" is based on Dean wooldridge's book The Machinery of the Brain) The primary objective was to apply system engineering and reverse engineering to one of the most perplexing problems of our age: Human consciousness and Human Emotion. - In 2003 obtained a patent from the US Patent Office on the Relational Robotic Controller (RRC).
- In 2005 Published the results of 12 years of robotic neurobiological research in the preview edition of the MCTJ-Android Engineering Journal
- 2004–present: Over 20 publications in the peer reviewed literature and presentations at scientific conferences and meetings.
Space systems engineering
- 1960–1975 Principal investigator for NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
: conducted experiments on explorer 6 Pioneer 1 and 2, the Pegasus spacecraft, and the Relay Satellite. Noteworthy Accomplishments:
- First to traverse and map the outer boundary of the Van Allen Radiation Belts.
- First to map the complete inner and outer radiation zone
- Co-author and editor of 4 books: Space Physics, published by John Wiley 1964; Space Sciences, published by Wiley 1965; Spacecraft Charging by Magnetospheric Plasmas. Vol 47. Published by the AIAA with cooperation of MIT Press; and Medical and Biological Aspects of the Energies of Space, edited by Paul Campbell, Columbia Univ. Press: New York and London, 1961
- 1975–1985 Laboratory Director Space Sciences Laboratory: A research Laboratory devoted to Plasma Physics, Magnetospheric Physics and space instrumentation.
- 1985–1992 Advanced Systems Manager for the Science and Applications Business Area.
Work
Dr. Rosen is director of Research at Machine Consciousness (MCon), is the originator of the discipline of robotic neurobiology and founder of the Robotic Neurobiology Society. Since 1993, at MCon, he developed and holds patents on the design of conscious, emotional and intelligent humanoid robots. He is an authority in robotic neurobiology, consciousness, and emotions. Prior to 1993, at TRW, he was an advanced systems manager in the science and applications satelliteSatellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
business area, and a laboratory
Laboratory
A laboratory is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. The title of laboratory is also used for certain other facilities where the processes or equipment used are similar to those in scientific laboratories...
director of the Space Sciences Laboratory
Space Sciences Laboratory
The Space Sciences Laboratory is an Organized Research Unit of the University of California, Berkeley. It is located in the Berkeley Hills above the university campus...
. In 1959, when he was hired by TRW Inc., he was a professor of physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
and mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
. At this time, he is a member of the IEEE-computational Intelligence Society, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, International Neural Network Society (INNS), and other neuroscience societies. He is the author of 4 books and published a large number of scientific papers in the peer-reviewed literature.
Rosen's specialty is systems engineering and reverse engineering the Darwinian adaptations of biological organs, with emphasis on the human brain and somatic sensory systems. For the past 15 years, working with his son, David B. Rosen, he has reverse-engineered the total functional operation of the human brain, human consciousness, human emotion, human speech comprehension and verbalization, and human intelligence. His robotic neurobiological designs lead to advances in the field of humanoid robotic engineering, neurobiology, psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
, psychiatry
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
, somatic
Somatic
The term somatic means 'of the body',, relating to the body. In medicine, somatic illness is bodily, not mental, illness. The term is often used in biology to refer to the cells of the body in contrast to the germ line cells which usually give rise to the gametes...
and autonomic medicine, education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
, and sociobiology
Sociobiology
Sociobiology is a field of scientific study which is based on the assumption that social behavior has resulted from evolution and attempts to explain and examine social behavior within that context. Often considered a branch of biology and sociology, it also draws from ethology, anthropology,...
.
Theories of consciousness, emotions, and cognition
His theories, publications and presentations form the basic foundation for future developments in the field of Robotic neurobiology and humanoid robotic systems engineering. The basic assumption underlying all his discoveries and innovations is that the human brainHuman brain
The human brain has the same general structure as the brains of other mammals, but is over three times larger than the brain of a typical mammal with an equivalent body size. Estimates for the number of neurons in the human brain range from 80 to 120 billion...
and the consciousness
Consciousness
Consciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind...
and emotional characteristics associated with it, is an organic Darwinian
Darwinism
Darwinism is a set of movements and concepts related to ideas of transmutation of species or of evolution, including some ideas with no connection to the work of Charles Darwin....
adaptation, genetically designed with consciousness and emotional drives so as to statistically enhance the survival of the human species in its environmental niche
Ecological niche
In ecology, a niche is a term describing the relational position of a species or population in its ecosystem to each other; e.g. a dolphin could potentially be in another ecological niche from one that travels in a different pod if the members of these pods utilize significantly different food...
. His controversial theories are outlined in 3-publications-available for viewing at the MCon.org website:
- A video-taped invited presentation: The Turing Machine Re-visited—The design of a conscious-emotional machine to the IEEE-RCIIC Chapter of the Computational Intelligence Society. Presented July 8, 2007, at Northrop Grumman Inc. May be viewed at http://www.MCon.org/media/ieee_rcicc0607.mov
- "An Emotional Robotic Brain and How it works", Published by the editors of the MCON Journal, may be viewed at http://mcon.org/howbrain.html
- "Darwinian Consciousness and How it Works", Published by the editors of the MCON Journal, may be viewed at http://mcon.org/wic.html