Make our brains FOSS! Why can’t I just tell my brain that now is sleeping time and it will just sleep?!
you can pay an expert for some upgrades, but they generally don’t do them unless something broke.
Me lowering my heart rate in the body.config file because I think I know better (a typo immediately kills me)
I rooted a android device last night. I wish I could modify my brain like I do all the devices I use.
You don’t own your brain, you are the brain. Your conciousness is literally a process of the brain’s proprietary code.
Well, kinda. The brain is the hardware “the mind” is the software. If we could separate the mind from the brain we could upload ourselves somewhere to live forever. So IMO my brain is just where I keep “me”.
Your conciousness is literally a process of the brain’s proprietary code.
It’s a likely hypothesis but we don’t know that for sure. There’s zero evidence of consciousness outside of your subjective experience of it. We don’t know what it is and how it emerges.
You aren’t real and are just a projection by my brain!
/s lol, #solipcism
hey it’s my turn to be solipsist, imaginary friend
I may not be real in the physical sense but the fact that it feels like something to be is the only thing in the entire universe that I have zero doubt about.
Interesting. I’m a synthetic with a digital consciousness.
Do I count? 😏
But can it run Doom?
Yes, just imagine it, that is running doom on your hardware
Found the transhumanist.
New word! It’s cool too!
I also learnt a lot of new words (including “transhumanist”) from the internet. :)
I can soft mod my brain with chemicals. 🤷🏻♂️
Brb bout to sideload a 2 day subscription of LSD.
You gotta take it all at once. Your brain nearly immediately develops short term immunity to mushrooms and acid. It’s one reason why people can’t really become addicted to them.
Note- please do not take enough acid to trip for two days
But, they are not compatible with other modules of your body.
Wouldnt it be more like exploiting a bug?
No way, its right there in the documentation.
I just want the user guide to be honest
Sadly, it’s paywalled behind a 200k med degree. Even then, there is a lot of inconsistent or missing documentation.
You actually can modify your “software”, though there’s limits. Can’t really swap the kernel at all, and the OS is a bitch to alter, but the DE is totally doable. We even have bug fixers, called therapists.
Now, deleting old programs is hard, but there are tricks to reset your clock, assuming the hardware is both functional and running a standard configuration. Some folks are just wired different, so playing with the clock results in blue screens at inopportune moments.
This except the “software” you’re patching is actually hardware.
Oddly enough, a not insubstantial amount of our runtime is done in the peripherals.
Meanwhile we have many subroutines running in each cell with dedicated hardware and compute, and even these can be edited to some degree through psychological means as well as nutrition and exercise.
This is exactly what needs to be said. Thank you!
When I did my 4 years of attachment therapy, and I gave it everything I had, I could literally feel the structure of my brain changing.
Not thought patterns changing (which they did) I’m talking about the actual physical structure of my brain. New pathways were forged and old ones closed forever. It very much reminded me of how I could feel my brain developing when I was teaching myself to program at the age of 13-16… and thinking so hard that my brain felt like it was literally overheating.
It’s a crazy experience to have as a human - to literally not be able to construct old thought, or emotion frameworks, because the physical structure required for them doesn’t exist anymore. To have memories reduced to “that happened” while no longer being able to recall any relevant details.
And it’s always listening to what I’m doing lol
“cannot modify it” absolumment pas vrai
Puedes hacer muchas cosas con tu cerebro si quieres.
I feel a porke no los dos.jpg is the right tjing to poste here, men vad vet jag, rien du tout.
So is richtig.
Genau!
(That was signed. it doesn’t really come across in ascii)
Sorry, legacy code and technical debt. Please check in with us in ~2000 years or so, we might have the next minor bugfix version up by then.
Patch notes
- fixed that one bug
- added 99 new bugs
🎶 One hundred and ninety nine bugs in the code, one hundred and ninety nine bugs! 🎶
🎶 *You take one down, patch it around, six hundred and forty-eight bugs in the code!*🎶
Looks back at the mountain of dead equipment that was used, tested, built, redesigned, failed or didn’t function in order to get to this point
Patch Notes: Fixed a memory leak. But that caused the sleep Guage to overflow back to 0 constantly. Waiting for the next software upgrade in 10,000 years to fix it.
memory leak
i fw that heavily
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Meditation is one way of getting control of your brain.
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Yoga and Tai Chi is a way of control your brain by focusing on your body.
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Recite a mantra is another way.
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Daily routines is also an auto-pilot way of getting control of your brain. (This one is good if you have trouble getting asleep(
You can train those methods consciously and understand the mechanics of how the controls work. Once understood and footpaths set (meditation, daily routines), you can switch between these controls if needed. Or force a thought reset (mantra)
It’s not a secret and known since ages. It’s just that people are too lazy to train. And may be prefer the comfortable auto-pilot way of living.
While I understand what you are saying, I think that labeling everyone who can’t keep a routine as “lazy” is a bit pointless, and very wrong.
Meditation is one way of getting control of your brain.
I suspect that most people who have a meditation practice would disagree with this assertion.
Meditation only helps me be more aware of what the brain is doing / making me do. I can’t control it and I’d argue that neither can anyone else. Free will in the common sense is an illusion.
I‘m refering the title with „control“ However, bringing thoughts & feelings into the direction you like to, compared to be just overwhelmed, is a sort of control.
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Can’t modify it? Watch me.
grabs shotgun
What does it even mean to say “I own my brain”? What is this “I” that’s doing the owning?
From my point of view it just seems like brain exists and that brain is having a subjective experience. The sense of self is just one of those experiences. It’s not real - there’s no self located within the brain. Atleast not that we know of.
That’s what my man the Buddha was saying 25 odd centuries ago. Yet here we are
