Make our brains FOSS! Why can’t I just tell my brain that now is sleeping time and it will just sleep?!
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.
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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
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 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.
I just want the user guide to be honest
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 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.
“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)
Can’t modify it? Watch me.
grabs shotgun
And it’s always listening to what I’m doing lol
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.
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 bitch 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
You own your brain…
i don’t know how to break this to you, but you are your brain.
Exactly. Who is this “you” that owns your brain. Your soul?
Do drugs
Seems to be a recurring theme here
I mean yeah bro if you wanna fuck with your brain chemistry, you gotta use chemistry.
It’s also accurate in that I’m about to drop it off an 8 story building cause it won’t fucking work right
Are you okay, friend?
Ok? Not even close. Safe? Probably. I’m good at choosing not to kill myself, it’s a decision I make a lot
Keep choosing life, we need you in it <3
