Alex M. Vikoulov

Alex M. Vikoulov is a Russian-American futurist, evolutionary cyberneticist, philosopher of mind, author and filmmaker. Founder, CEO, Editor-in-Chief at Ecstadelic Media Group, Board Member of California-based Metaverse News Network. Self-described neo-transcendentalist, transhumanist singularitarian, cybertheosopher who lives and works in California's Silicon Valley. Recently published works include: The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution (Magnum Opus 2019, 2020e); The Omega Singularity: Universal Mind & The Fractal Multiverse, The Cybernetic Theory of Mind series (2022); THEOGENESIS: Transdimensional Propagation & Universal Expansion (2021); The Cybernetic Singularity: The Syntellect Emergence (2021); TECHNOCULTURE: The Rise of Man (2020); NOOGENESIS: Computational Biology (2020); The Origins of Us: Evolutionary Emergence and The Omega Point Cosmology, The Science and Philosophy of Information series (2019); The Physics of Time: D-Theory of Time & Temporal Mechanics (2019); The Intelligence Supernova: Essays on Cybernetic Transhumanism, The Simulation Singularity & The Syntellect Emergence (2019); Theology of Digital Physics: Phenomenal Consciousness, The Cosmic Self & The Pantheistic Interpretation of Our Holographic Reality (2019). His new documentary Consciousness: Evolution of the Mind (2021) is a masterful film on the nature of consciousness and his take on reverse engineering of our thinking in order to implement it in cybernetics and advanced AI systems. Economist by training, philosopher by vocation, in his words, “worked in the corporate world, worked in the startup world, sat on the boards, sat on the beach, was employed, was self-employed, was a venture capitalist, was an ‘adventure’ capitalist,” while his passion towards physics and philosophy slowly but surely was brewing in the background. Born and raised in Russia, Alex Vikoulov was growing up a gifted child so much so that his parents transferred him to a lycée with advanced math and foreign language programs. He studied humanities at Tomsk State University and had his first entrepreneurship experience by running Sibmarket Financial, among the first hedge funds in Russia. He immigrated to the United States in 1994 at the age of 24, continued his studies in the U.S. where he graduated in 1999 from Armstrong University with degrees in finance and economics. Alex Vikoulov has a diverse background in the fintech and IT industries. Ecstadelic Media Group, PR/digital media and publishing company, is one of his latest projects where he is CEO/Editor-in-Chief. Prior to Ecstadelic Media, he served as CFO and board member of the AI startup Neuromama, Ltd. From 2005 to 2013 held various executive positions, and spent about 3 years as a business consultant in Southeast Asia. From 2001 to 2005, managed the San Francisco office of First Data Corp., the largest payment processor in the U.S. From 1999 to 2001, he held a consultant position with Prudential Securities, Inc. From 1990 to 1994, as President & CEO, Vikoulov managed Sibmarket Financial, one of the pioneering hedge funds in the emerging markets, while serving as a stock exchange board member. He started his career at Incombank in 1990 as a statistical analyst. As an evolutionary cyberneticist and philosopher of mind, Vikoulov is currently developing the Cybernetic Theory of Mind, an advanced multidisciplinary ontological model, his theory of everything.