Post Symposium Science Policy Implications on Exceptional Abilities Research, November 16, 1987

该项目将支持联邦政府支持对特殊能力的研究的政策研讨会，包括照相记忆、闪电计算、天才、创造性利他主义和非凡的系统转换等现象。这次研讨会主要是为联邦科学政策官员举办的，随后将由诺伊特科学研究所主办一个关于这一主题的更大规模的公开研讨会。在国家科学基金会资助的研讨会上，讨论的主要焦点将是特殊能力研究的资金来源和研究议程。研讨会的成果将包括出版的会议记录报告、目前政府支持的这一领域的研究概况，以及关于各机构和组织为推进这一领域的研究可能采取的下一步措施的建议。诺意科学研究所是一个公共基金会，其目的是促进关于大脑和人类潜能的科学研究，并探索这种研究在卫生、教育、商业和其他领域的应用。他们完全有资格组织这次研讨会。

This project will support a policy workshop on Federal support of research into exceptional abilities, including such phenomena as photographic memory, lightning calculation, genius, creative altruism and extraordinary systematic transformations. This workshop, primarily for Federal science policy officials, will follow on a larger, public symposium on this topic being sponsored by the Institute of Noetic Sciences. The primary focus of the discussions at the NSF-supported workshop will be sources of funding and research agenda for exceptional abilities research. Outcomes of the workshop will include a published report of the proceedings, an overview of current research in this area now being supported by the government, and recommendations concerning the next steps various agencies and organizations might take to advance research in this area. The Institute of Noetic Sciences is a public foundation whose purposes are to promote scientific research on the mind and human potentials, and to explore the application of that research in health, education, business and other fields. They are well qualified to organize this workshop.