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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I can soft mod my brain with chemicals. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

Brb bout to sideload a 2 day subscription of LSD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldnt it be more like exploiting a bug?

[–] jrs100000 2 points 1 hour ago

No way, its right there in the documentation.

[–] olafurp 10 points 3 hours ago

I just want the user guide to be honest

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

β€œcannot modify it” absolumment pas vrai

[–] wreckedcarzz 7 points 3 hours ago

Can't modify it? Watch me.

grabs shotgun

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] untorquer 1 points 1 hour 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.

[–] Krudler 6 points 4 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's also accurate in that I'm about to drop it off an 8 story building cause it won't fucking work right

[–] nepenthes 2 points 2 hours ago

Are you okay, friend?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)
  • Meditation is one way of getting control of your brain.

  • Yoga and Tai Chi is a way of control your brain by focusing on your body.

  • Recite a mantra is another way.

  • 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.

[–] MTK 2 points 11 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 42 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Patch notes

  • fixed that one bug
  • added 99 new bugs
[–] very_well_lost 19 points 8 hours 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!*🎢

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours 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 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

memory leak

i fw that heavily

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Same with programming it lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

you own it but also can't really modify it

Lemme introduction you to my friends: drugs, TBIs, and dementia

[–] MTK 1 points 10 minutes ago

Dementia is just planned obsolescence

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 hours ago (12 children)

Psilocybin will patch that shit.

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[–] ohwhatfollyisman 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You own your brain...

i don't know how to break this to you, but you are your brain.

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[–] OldManBOMBIN 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MTK 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Seems to be a recurring theme here

[–] OldManBOMBIN 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I mean yeah bro if you wanna fuck with your brain chemistry, you gotta use chemistry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That's one thing I appreciate about Lemmy. Without a doubt you are all people of logic.

[–] OldManBOMBIN 4 points 6 hours ago

Thanks, I think.

[–] ThePyroPython 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Believe it or not, straight to jail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

You mean straight to hell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I'd like to be able to attach a debugger, please?

[–] saltesc 3 points 6 hours ago

OP unknowingly explaining simulation theory concepts.

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