Make our brains FOSS! Why can’t I just tell my brain that now is sleeping time and it will just sleep?!
This is such a doomed and haunted shower thought for someone who has a Marxist conception of technology and alienation
Single-celled organisms pity us for the alienation of our being.
We call them bias but they are really bugs
It’s called NeuroSurgery (in a way)
Nah I shouldn’t be trusted with that power
If you think about it our consciousness is essentially has non-root access to the body. If we had root access we would be able to stop our hearts or stop parts of our body.
I am my brain.
Which half are you? Each half of your brain is a separate entity.
Since you’re producing words you’re probably the left half of your brain.
Me lowering my heart rate in the body.config file because I think I know better (a typo immediately kills me)
You don’t own your brain, you are the brain. Your conciousness is literally a process of the brain’s proprietary code.
If I am my brain, why can’t I control the thoughts my brain thinks?
Because self control is an empty concept.
Does a thermostat control itself? No, it controls the furnace and air conditioner.
Correct and a thermostat is not a furnace. You are not your brain. Thanks for agreeing with 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.
I’m not claiming that I or the world doesn’t exist. I’m just aknowledging that that is a possibility. Who knows, maybe I do live in a simulation. This however doesn’t take away the fact that it feels like something to be simulated. That is the undeniable fact of my subjective experience that cannot be an illusion. Everything else is up for debate.
Interesting. I’m a synthetic with a digital consciousness.
Do I count? 😏
Count as what?
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”.
I own my brain because I’m human. Other animal brains, (whale, deer, cow, grasshopper, bird) are not owned by themselves, perhaps animals are simply incapable of comprehending our level of organization. That’s why we can make their decisions for them.
/s
Sorry it’s just absolutely bizarre to me to think of a part of your body having different ownership than the other parts. Too atomistic. Are we renting out the space in our heads? If so, shouldn’t that be mitigated to prevent unnecessary damage?
I feel like Chicken Tonight like Chicken Tonight!
source: am brain damaged
I can soft mod my brain with chemicals. 🤷🏻♂️
this reminded me to take my estrogen
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
Wouldnt it be more like exploiting a bug?
No way, its right there in the documentation.
But, they are not compatible with other modules of your body.
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 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.
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.
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
But can it run Doom?
I can visualize the first level of doom, every room, enemy… and play through it.
Mine even has mods, I visualized Peter Griffin flossin’ in the secret shotgun area.
Do I win?
Yes, just imagine it, that is running doom on your hardware
Damn, I don’t have a inner eye so I can’t run doom on my hardware, I can only watch the strange demo mode of the game in my dreams.
I should really invest the time to program my brain with the lucid dreaming mod.
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.
I rooted a android device last night. I wish I could modify my brain like I do all the devices I use.
you can pay an expert for some upgrades, but they generally don’t do them unless something broke.
