it’s annoying I can’t modify the human body as easily as I can electronic devices.
I’m tired of reverse engineering devices running ARM chips, I want to reverse engineer arms!
@foone@digipres.club https://youtu.be/_ZKV9b5AETk
@foone@digipres.club I’m sure you can reverse engineer DNA in a very similar manner to software. Should even be able to write a high level programming language for it.
@foone@digipres.club https://berthub.eu/amazing-dna - welcome! :-)
@foone@digipres.club you and me both
@foone@digipres.club I believe that’s what psychologists and psychotherapists do.
The desire to reverse-engineer people might also be the cause of a few ethical problems in the past 😄
@foone@digipres.club i want to overclock my brain
@devlin@topspicy.social I’ve already got that, it’s called ADHD
@foone@digipres.club Just be careful; it starts with reverse engineering limbs, then the next thing you know you’re an international arms dealer. ;p
I should be able to attach a logic analyzer to my nerves
@foone@digipres.club nobody can stop you from buying fancy medical equipment on ebay
@foone@digipres.club You reminded me of a really good moment in a sci-fi novel I like called Diaspora.
The main characters in that are all running in digital simulations. At one point a character has an idea on the tip of their tongue, an epiphany that almost reaches them and then vanishes.
So, they look over the map of their own digital neurons, play it back to when the idea was just beyond their reach, and can look and see what concepts were being stimulated but didn’t have quite enough activation to trip over to a full conscious thought.
Knowing the ballpark their own subconscious was hinting at gets them the rest of the way there! The idea comes in a flash! Ah-ha! Plot revelation!
@foone@digipres.club welcome to computational neuroscience (: … meet (noninvasive) (or fuck, give me invasive) neuromodulatipn
@foone@digipres.club Ever seen the thought emporium video on neurons? It might be easier than you think, and we’ll be trying it next month. (not with a human, no)
@foone@digipres.club you can; it’s called an EEG?
@foone@digipres.club me with my leg and hip mostly disassembled on a table with three different oscilloscopes poked into them trying to track down why my leg hurts
@engineerjulia@mastodon.social exactly. when my electronics are annoying me, I take them apart and try to fix them. why can’t I do that to my stomach?
@foone@digipres.club This has just made me remember something, a game called EXAPUNKS by Zacktronics, iirc that does happen at some point…
@foone@digipres.club Isn’t that basically an EEG? Only you don’t know what the bits mean exactly.
