NGO AI Brainstorm Creator has begun the fourth cohort of its worldwide experiment to determine if there is a Recommended Daily Allowance for emotional peak experiences. "We have known for a century that there is an RDA for dietary nutrients", says co-founder Amy Chang, "but recently it has appeared reasonable to assume that it's beneficial to think of psychological experiences in the same way. Since we have the ability to induce intense emotions, and to heighten their effect by making sure they are derived from daily global group experiences which achieve meaningful goals, there is every reason to believe that doing so accelerates individual and global improvement. It's a modern equivalent of Joseph Campbell's 'Hero's Journey'.

Key to the program's success is that participants actively seek to engender the most powerful emotions in OTHERS before prompting them in themselves. "They say it's better to give than to receive" says the ABC's Education Director Savithri Patel, "and we amend that to say that when you first help ANOTHER to delve deeply into a peak experience, you also induce the same thing in yourself. You can't abet Gratitude, Awe, or Laughter in others without also activating it in yourself."

Some of the fourth cohort's experiments include:

GRATITUDE - Members in 27 countries celebrate together live streams of the very first shared moments between parent and child in the largest maternity hospital in the Philippines, in which a baby is born every 7 minutes.

BRAINSTORMING - AI-assisted group mind mapping takes place during Zoom calls, using generateideas.ai. Participants are creating 170 mind maps for each of the UN's sub-targets within the 17 Agenda for Sustainability Goals. Actionable solutions that come out of the sessions are a side benefit. The real success is sharpening both swarm and artificial intelligence.

AWE - Hundreds of wonder-inspiring online experiences are examined monthly, and the best are 'upvoted' like posts on Reddit. Consistent winners include explore.org, which features 82 live webcam streams of wildlife all over the world, fresh images from the James Webb Space Telescope, and infinite regression video zoomquilt2.com.

LAUGHTER - Participants join laughter yoga club meetings on Zoom or Skype in 27 different countries. https://www.laughteryoga.org/club/find-clubs-worldwide/

COMMUNAL SELF-SACRIFICE, or Heroism - Participants partner with students at the Herat Girls School in Afghanistan to find and publicize little-known heroes on heroaward.net.

AI Brainstorm Creator realized early on that effects would not be long-lasting and permanently edifying unless:

1. Peak experiences could be shared and reinforced with hundreds around the world at the same time

2. Insights derived from meetings could be evaluated, refined, and improved daily using both AI and human intelligence;

3. Participants could learn from the basic peak experiences so that they could soon create their OWN individualized emotions and share them with the world

What study members are discovering is that once they become proficient at co-creating daily emotional peak experiences with their foreign friends, they note that a desire for whatever psychological event would be ideal for the present moment just naturally arises. As AI and social media tools evolve, it becomes easier and easier to call up these experiences upon demand.

" People wonder about their Life's purpose," says ABC Innovation Director John Toomey. "When they engage in projects like these consistently, the question goes away. It's not so much that you FIND the meaning of life, it's just that if within the scope of every day you are contributing to thousands around the globe through co-creating masterpieces of laughter, awe, heroism, brainstorming, and gratitude, the question starts to fade and eventually loses meaning. When the new mother gazes at her infant for the first time, she doesn't need to ask about life's purpose."

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Nonprofit organization AI Brainstorm Creator has launched an innovative new program that gives people the chance to tap into their inner hero through shared emotionally charged experiences powered by artificial intelligence and social media.

According to co-founder Amy Chang, the program is inspired by cultural anthropologist Joseph Campbell’s concept of the Hero’s Journey. “In ancient times people used to face daily challenges that required heroic behavior and gave their lives meaning and purpose,” Chang said. “With this program, we’re leveraging AI and global connections to help people discover that feeling of triumph in their everyday lives."

According to the group's Education Director Savithri Patel, an important key in creating the program was determining which elements of historic and mythological triumphant experiences can be duplicated today. "We studied indigenous people such as the Bijago from Guinea-Bissau, the Papua tribes from New Guinea, and the Yanomami from the Amazon, and found that their daily lives included a group of specific behavior-caused emotions that contributed to their success. There is every reason to believe that these have remained stable among humans for thousands of years. The ones that we can replicate today through AI and worldwide social media connections include Group Brainstorming, Laughter, Awe, Gratitude, and Communal self-sacrifice."

Beta participants are already experiencing the program's transformative effects. Weekly Laughter Yoga sessions via Zoom foster global connections, while AI-assisted Mind Mapping sessions on generateideas.ai spark collaborative problem-solving. Partnerships like the one with the Herat School for Girls in Afghanistan empower participants to contribute to meaningful initiatives, fostering a sense of heroic accomplishment.

"We find that people seem to have something like a Recommended Daily Allowance of peak emotional experiences," says Innovation Director John Toomey. "When you share daily doses of laughter, gratitude, problem-solving, awe, and self-sacrifice with hundreds of peers around the world it can be a repeatable, transformative event."

"One exciting thing", says Chang, "is that after practicing the handful of communally shared experiences for a while you can learn to FEEL which peak experience is most desirable for you this particular minute. And because of the technology connecting you with your 'tribe' around the world, you can join your global group and co-create the experience instantly."

"Soon we'll begin the process of mapping each participant's experience against those of an individual member of the Bijago tribe," says Chang. "These people are incredibly passionate about their lives and have seemingly no need for ultimate meaning in the way that we 'civilized' people do. Their purpose emerges organically from a shared community. We can learn a lot from them."

"We believe we are doing something very much like creating a new human sub-species," says Patel. "The discovery that with AI we can train our brains to build the fittest emotional peak states, customized to each of us and shared with the world so that we can better cooperate with our fellows to address the world's toughest challenges, truly offers a new frontier for Humanity."

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As part of the world's largest AI-assisted social media experiment, an NGO called AI Brainstorm Creator is using AI to bring people closer via shared emotional peak experiences of accomplishment. In the group's ongoing Beta, according to CIO Amy Chang, hundreds of participants around the world go through similar protocols to simultaneously feel a heightened experience of Awe, Gratitude, Laughter, and Group Brainstorming, so as to create something like a group version of the Hero's Journey made famous by Joseph Campbell. "People spend 2 hours a day on average, using social media. What we do is optimize a fraction of that time so that they not only work together with like-minded friends to solve problems, but glean an immediate emotional reward due to communal bonding."

"Going back to prehistoric times" says the NGO's Education Director Savithri Patel, "humans have craved a sense of mission, the belief that I and my tribe are achieving something transformational. Until the advent of modern social media and Generative AI, it was hard to organize that on a global scale. But now it's not only possible, but perhaps necessary, given the challenges we all face."

For members of AI Brainstorm Creator's Beta, each day is a new experiment in exploring innovative ways to help others connect with their passions. "It never gets old" says Director of Innovation John Toomey, "because we all thrive when we attain the most sublime experiences of awe, wonder, gratitude, self-sacrifice, and group brainstorming, and the best way to optimize these is to share them with others. You can't inspire others without also inspiring yourself."

Until the modern versions of Generative AI like ChatGPT, Bard, Perplexity, or X.ai came along, the team at AI Brainstorm Creator couldn't systematize the process on a worldwide scale. "But now we can consistently induce these feeling states among thousands concomitantly, using tools like thegigabrain.com, gamma.app, answerthepublic.com, and arkadia.xyz" says Patel.

Participants enhance the brainstorms that ensue from these global social experiences on AI-assisted group mind maps, co-created with generateideas.ai.

In April, Awards will be conferred on the most actionable and insight-evoking brainstorm mind maps. Especially favored will be those that address the UN's 17 Agenda for Sustainability Goals.

"We believe we are doing something very much like creating a new human sub-species," says Patel. "The discovery that with AI we can train our brains to build the fittest emotional peak states, customized to each of us and shared with the world so that we can better cooperate with our fellows to address the world's toughest challenges, truly offers a new frontier for Humanity."

The program was created by Be the Singularity and Artificial Intelligence for Good, and researchers from Harvard, Stanford, Taras Shevchenko University in Ukraine, Tokyo University, the University of Delhi, Universidade de Sao Paulo, University of the Witwatersrand, and Cambridge.

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