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. :)
And it’s always listening to what I’m doing lol
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 removed 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.
“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
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
Can’t modify it? Watch me.
grabs shotgun
Psilocybin will patch that shit.
I did hear something similar in the past, care to elaborate?
Don’t just do it without serious research on the evidence for it and high confidence that your source knows what they’re doing. There are many types of mushrooms that are very poisonous, and collecting wild mushrooms isn’t something to play games with without appropriate education. And to make it better, there are a real number of AI slop books/resources muddying the water.
But there’s a lot of evidence that even single doses have meaningful, lasting benefits.
Psilocybin is basically an antidepressant, and anti-anxiety drug. Pharmaceutical companies have a vested interest in keeping it illegal bcz they can’t make money off it. You can literally find psilocybin on cow poo.
Psilocybin is basically an antidepressant, and anti-anxiety drug.
Except that it’s totally not either of those things. In fact, it can sometimes cause panic attacks if taken ill advisedly.
Psilocybin and other psychedelics reveal to us a lot of the inner workings of our minds. That can help people to correct unhealthy thinking when they are willing to do the work. That can lead to long term reduction of anxiety and depression, but only through addressing root causes.
only through addressing root causes.
Lol, I’m not doing that! But good info…
From the article you linked.
researchers report that the substantial antidepressant effects of psilocybin-assisted therapy, given with supportive psychotherapy, may last at least a year for some patients.
So, essentially what I said. There is a difference between an anti-anxiety or anti-depressive drug and a drug that’s useful in therapy to treat anxiety or depression.
Anti-depressive and anti-anxiety drugs function on their own, but only so long as the drug is active in your system. Psychedelics allow self reflection to enhance traditionally non-drug therapies. They can even lead to the exact opposite results when used in an improper mind set or setting.
Still - take with care. Lost one friend to psilos & Lsd (he couldn’t adjust to reality anymore), another one lost to alcohol and the last one for all the other mixed shit. Waiting for the fourth lost soul.
Not advocating being sober - I‘m older than 40 and happy that weed is legal in Germany now and sometimes a smiley pill. I‘m just saying - take it with care.
unless you want to grow them yourself, then they require the most sterile environment
in the wild tho? yeah cow shit will do :)
Not particularly sterile, just sanitary. Grain starter needs to be pasteurized, trich needs to be removed from bulk spawn.
I know lemmy hates reddit but r/unclebens will get anyone on the road to growing their own scooby snax. (Legal in Colorado, check local codes and laws, no refunds under any circumstances, do not removed to me if you get busted)
in most places it’s legal to buy and have the mycelium itself but it’s illegal to let it grow
so many online shops that very clearly are not for scientists with a lil disclaimer somewhere saying “please do not make drugs out of this, this is purely for looking at through a microscope for all the amateur mycologists :))))”
Others have said it more eloquently that I can but tl;dr:
You know how you have an id and an ego in your thinking meat? A correct dose of one of the "right’ hallucinogens will just melt that pesky ego motherfucker. One doesn’t need to achieve ego death to receive benefits.
There are as many “explanations” for the efficacy of psilocybin as there are models of consciousness. The one I like is that the drug causes an increase in neuroplasticity and that allows your brain to reroute its network more easily. I find it does great for helping me decontextualize experiences and strip them of the heavy negative emotional baggage some experiences have.
I don’t know, I’ve heard it works well alongside therapy and having sessions to help integrate the experience. I usually just microdose and meditate with an intention a few timesin the week before a legit trip and let the drugs do their thing. Sometimes it’s unpleasant in the moment but I always start a timer when I dose so I have seen over the years that the unpleasant parts are only like 15 minutes to an hour of the 6ish hour experience. Those 15 minutes can feel like forever because it messes with one’s perception of time but even that gets less weird with practice.
They are powerful little guys though. I went to church after my most recent trip because it felt really right. That was odd since I’m not a practicing Christian anymore although I don’t hate religion by any means I’ve just never gotten a lot out of it.
you own it but also can’t really modify it
Lemme introduction you to my friends: drugs, TBIs, and dementia
Edit:
Lemme introduction you
Wtf is wrong with me lately? Geez…
Dementia is just planned obsolescence
