Make our brains FOSS! Why can’t I just tell my brain that now is sleeping time and it will just sleep?!

  • Juice@midwest.social
    71·
    6 days ago

    This is such a doomed and haunted shower thought for someone who has a Marxist conception of technology and alienation

    • wabafee@lemmy.world
      61·
      6 days ago

      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.

  • randomdeadguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    7 days ago

    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

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
    77·
    8 days ago

    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.

      • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
        30·
        8 days ago

        🎶 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!*🎶

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        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

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
      19·
      8 days ago

      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.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    8 days ago

    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.

    • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      8 days ago

      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.

    • untorquer@lemmy.world
      4·
      7 days ago

      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.

  • lorty@lemmy.ml
    32·
    7 days ago

    Me lowering my heart rate in the body.config file because I think I know better (a typo immediately kills me)

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
        20·
        8 days ago

        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.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
        163·
        8 days ago

        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.

        • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
          111·
          8 days ago

          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.

            • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
              4·
              8 days ago

              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.

            • DrunkenPirate@feddit.org
              1·
              8 days ago

              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.

        • shneancy@lemmy.world
          9·
          8 days ago

          unless you want to grow them yourself, then they require the most sterile environment

          in the wild tho? yeah cow shit will do :)

          • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
            8·
            8 days ago

            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 bitch to me if you get busted)

            • shneancy@lemmy.world
              31·
              7 days ago

              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 :))))”

      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        8 days ago

        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.

      • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
        4·
        8 days ago

        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.

  • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
    19·
    8 days ago

    You can train it but it requires a lot of boring manual entries and the model may deviate if you ever stop.

  • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    18·
    8 days ago

    There’s a JTAG port in the base of the cortex for pushing firmware updates. Problem is, we lost the signing keys back in the neolithic. Thag got crushed by a mammoth before we had a chance to invent written language and write documentation.

    • GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      6 days ago

      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?

      • Magiilaro@feddit.org
        3·
        7 days ago

        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.