David writes:
< There is such a huge area of interesting, at least to me, research, and not just for therapeutic use, here that it annoys me when a combination of puritan morality and scientific elitism dismisses the entire subject. > On a computer, when I experiment with kernel modules or unusual hardware, I use a crashbox. I don't have one of those for *me*. It isn't puritan morality nor is it any grand respect for academia or other scientific institutions or protocols. Also it seems to me this has been explored over the last 50 years or so, and if there were really easy wins, they would have been found by now. I guess I find it more interesting and plausible to consider the possibility of Neuralink<https://www.neuralink.com/> and learning how to write programs to enhance my perception and cognition. I imagine the way this will go will be lower-level interfaces, like the ability to overlay signals with the visual and auditory systems. I imagine it will be a very challenging learning curve, like learning a language and that programs will be specific to each person’s learning history. Farther out (maybe after I’m gone), I would guess there will be tunable gene regulation and maybe some family of follow-on species. Marcus
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