Tiny Blue Dot Foundation strives to help people understand that they live in their own unique Perception Box.
Those walls can be expanded to minimize suffering, increase acceptance of self and others, and view trauma/other challenges as opportunities for growth. Our mission is to develop Perception Box modification techniques that are safe, effective, reliable, measurable, widely accessible, and easy to use. Tiny Blue Dot Foundation seeks to fund neuroscientific research related to expanding people’s Perception Box.
Our goals
Educate
Help people understand that everyone is living in a Perception Box.
Experience
Let people experience expanded and contracted states of their Perception Box via specific interventions.
Measure
Track and measure the effectiveness of such interventions in the brain.
Meet The Team [07]
Elizabeth R. Koch
Founder
Elizabeth R. Koch is the Founder of Tiny Blue Dot Foundation. Koch turned a personal mission of insight and experience into a movement to help people understand and overcome the limits of their own perception.
Christof Koch, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist
Christof Koch is the Chief Scientist at Tiny Blue Dot Foundation. Koch is also a Meritorious Investigator at the Allen Institute, investigating at the cellular level how cortex and related brain-structures give rise to behavior and consciousness.
Giulio Tononi, M.D., Ph.D.
Advisory Board
Giulio Tononi, M.D., Ph.D. is a member of Tiny Blue Dot Foundation’s advisory board. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tononi is the Distinguished Professor in Consciousness Science, the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine, and the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness.
Alexander Bystritsky, M.D., Ph.D.
Advisory Board; Executive Emeritus
Alexander Bystritsky, M.D., Ph.D. is a member of Tiny Blue Dot Foundation’s advisory board. Bystritsky is currently a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles and also, the President of the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies and CEO of Brainsonix Inc.
Hartmut Neven, Ph.D
Advisory Board
Hartmut Neven, Ph.D. is a member of Tiny Blue Dot Foundation’s advisory board. Neven is a Vice President of Engineering at Google. There, he founded and manages the Quantum Artificial Intelligence lab, which works to dramatically accelerate computational tasks for machine intelligence.
Zeinab Barati, Ph.D.
Program Manager
Zeinab Barati, Ph.D. serves as the Program Manager for Tiny Blue Dot Foundation. Barati supports the funded projects in the scientific and clinical study of the neuronal basis of consciousness.
Rebecca Scott, MBA
Scientific Project Manager
Rebecca supports Tiny Blue Dot Foundation as a Scientific Project Manager. She earned her Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Washington State University with a focus on International Business Management.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Expanding the Walls of Our Perception Box
Tiny Blue Dot Foundation (TBD) seeks to fund rigorous, empirical, statistically valid, and sound research that allows children, teenagers, and adults to understand that the reality they experience is a construct of their mind, amenable to change. That is, they can learn to expand their Perception Box to reduce the anxieties that come with living in the modern world, minimize strife and to be more mindful and compassionate with others and themselves.