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NeuroSummit is a multi-day gathering of The Neurotransmitters — a community of creative technologists, artists, designers, and makers. Since 2015, we've hosted 7 events at various locations, bringing together 50-70 people to share skills, build things, and exist together outside of normal life.

If you make things — software, hardware, art, music, food, experiences — and you're curious about what other makers are building, you'll fit in. NeuroSummit draws from tech, design, arts, and everything between. You don't need to be an expert. You need to be curious and willing to participate.

Pricing for NS8 is being finalized. It will cover lodging, meals, and programming. We're committed to keeping it accessible — scholarship spots will be available. Register your interest and we'll share pricing as soon as it's set.

Yourself, comfortable desert clothing (days are hot, nights are cool), a project or workshop idea, and an open mind. Arcosanti is in the high desert at 3,800ft elevation — bring sunscreen, a hat, and layers for evenings. We'll send a detailed packing list closer to the event.

Yes. Some of our community members have kids now, and families are welcome. We'll have family-friendly spaces and programming. That said, NeuroSummit is primarily an adult gathering — parents should be prepared to supervise their children, and some evening programming may not be suitable for young kids.

July in the high desert is hot during the day (90-100°F) and beautiful at night (70s). Arcosanti sits at 3,800ft elevation, which is cooler than Phoenix. The monsoon season brings dramatic thunderstorms and incredible sunsets. We'll schedule around the heat — mornings and evenings are prime time.

We borrowed the name from biology — neurotransmitters are the chemicals that carry signals across synapses, connecting neurons. That's what we do: bridge disciplines, transmit ideas between domains. Systems thinking from Buckminster Fuller, the participatory ethos of Alan Watts, Zhuangzi's Daoist wisdom that mastery comes from flowing with the grain of reality rather than forcing, Brian Eno's 'scenius' — that genius emerges from communities, not lone individuals — and his generative systems that create endless variation through elegant rules, David Bowie's fearless reinvention and genre-crossing creativity that proved identity itself is a medium for exploration, Rick Rubin's 'reduce to increase' philosophy and his conviction that the producer's job is to get out of the way and create conditions for emergence, David Lynch's fifty-year Transcendental Meditation practice and his conviction that the deepest ideas come from diving into the subconscious — catching the big fish — the long-view futurism of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke's conviction that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, William Gibson's reminder that the future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed, Marshall McLuhan's insight that the medium shapes the message, Jane Jacobs' belief that vibrant communities are built from the ground up, Harry Bertoia's conviction that sculpture is primarily about space, light and sound — his Sonambient forests of singing metal rods and his Diamond Chair proving that design and art are the same impulse — James Baldwin's insistence that nothing can be changed until it is faced, Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo commitment to truth-through-immersion, Laurie Anderson's vision of technology as the campfire around which we tell our stories, Nam June Paik's transformation of television from passive medium into living art — using technology in order to hate it more properly — and Steve Jobs' insistence that technology married with liberal arts yields results that make our heart sing — these aren't just influences, they're the community's operating system.