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> 9. Reverse Engineer the Brain For what purpose? To replace humans? To make social media more addictive? To master brain manipulation?
by lovlar 2mo ago
> 9. Reverse Engineer the Brain
For what purpose? To replace humans? To make social media more addictive? To master brain manipulation?
- RajuChacha108 2mo agoTo do human brain activities at scale.
- willy_k 2mo agoSo the second option then.
- fcarraldo 2mo agoThis is called a “corporation”
- RajuChacha108 2mo agoYes.
- tantalor 2mo agoWe have a good understanding of the function (and more importantly dysfunction of) kidneys, lungs, heart, etc. from high level to cellular level. For brain, our understanding is fuzzy, more like "this part is important for that behavior" or "here is how neuron works" but we don't have a holistic understanding. If we had that, we could more easily diagnose and treat neurological disorder.
- captainclam 2mo agoI imagine a good model of the brain would contribute enormously to alleviating psychiatric/mental health disorders.
- embedding-shape 2mo ago> For what purpose? To understand, same reason you reverse engineer anything. Doesn't have to have a further goal than that, understanding the brain better helps in so many ways. But like most technology, obviously can be used for bad too. Should we just skip researching some topics then?
- lovlar 2mo agoI'm all for alleviating psychiatric/mental health disorders, but yes, some topics are worth skipping research on. For example chemical/biological/nuclear weapons, human cloning, and unethical gene modification. I just like to challenge myself, as an engineer, with the idea that not everything has to be engineered and optimized. What if we simply left some things unexplored and mysterious, and trusted nature and our own human capabilities? A better way of alleviating psychiatric/mental health disorders might just be to focus on societal factors.
- ryanlbrown 2mo agoPerhaps consider the scale of bad.
- Marha01 2mo agoPerhaps consider the scale of good.
- plomme 2mo agoSee https://qntm.org/mmacevedo https://qntm.org/mmacevedo and despair