This is such a doomed and haunted shower thought for someone who has a Marxist conception of technology and alienation
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Single-celled organisms pity us for the alienation of our being.
Me lowering my heart rate in the body.config file because I think I know better (a typo immediately kills me)
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!*🎶
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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.
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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.
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You don't own your brain, you are the brain. Your conciousness is literally a process of the brain's proprietary code.
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
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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.
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I can soft mod my brain with chemicals. 🤷🏻♂️
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
this reminded me to take my estrogen
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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.
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.
We call them bias but they are really bugs
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.
*we are my brain.
You can train it but it requires a lot of boring manual entries and the model may deviate if you ever stop.
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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.
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...
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Can't modify it? Watch me.
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You own your brain...
i don't know how to break this to you, but you are your brain.
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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
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.
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I rooted a android device last night. I wish I could modify my brain like I do all the devices I use.
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