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

  • DrunkenPirate@feddit.org
    76·
    2 months ago

    • 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.

    • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
      42·
      2 months 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.

      • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
        31·
        2 months ago

        Meditation only helps me be more aware of what the brain is doing / making me do. I can’t control it and I’d argue that neither can anyone else. Free will in the common sense is an illusion.

        • DrunkenPirate@feddit.org
          1·
          2 months ago

          I‘m refering the title with „control“ However, bringing thoughts & feelings into the direction you like to, compared to be just overwhelmed, is a sort of control.

    • MTK@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      2 months 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.

  • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
    8·
    2 months 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.

    • wabafee@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • souperk@reddthat.com
      4·
      2 months ago

      Sadly, it’s paywalled behind a 200k med degree. Even then, there is a lot of inconsistent or missing documentation.

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
    77·
    2 months ago

    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.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        2 months 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

      • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 months 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!*🎶

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
      19·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Magiilaro@feddit.org
        4·
        2 months ago

        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.

    • GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 months ago

      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?

  • Juice@midwest.social
    71·
    2 months ago

    This is such a doomed and haunted shower thought for someone who has a Marxist conception of technology and alienation

  • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
    19·
    2 months ago

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

  • viking@infosec.pub
    41·
    2 months ago

    You absolutely can. What really helps is to stop using any kind of digital devices about 2h before you intend to sleep, then workout for a bit, and chase that down with some meditation. Focused breathing exercises are enough, no need to go full guru.

    Afterwards take a shower, go go bed, and read a book. You’ll have to force yourself to make it through the current chapter, guaranteed.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    2 months ago

    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@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      2 months 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.