Month: May 2020

Physically as in physics, random isn’t a thing. Thus nothing can be random. God doesn’t play dice. Probability is a shortcut patching over ignorance. It’s a deeply useful idea, given our staggering levels of ignorance in need of patching over, but ultimately, each unit of possibility only has one outcome and “time” reveals it. Physics works the same backwards and forwards, that’s why one past and many futures is absurd. There’s one past and one future. More likely there isn’t even past and future. Just one huge holographic now we move through perceptually.

Just sayin.

https://www.patreon.com/Underlore

I’m never going to be able to work and qualifying for disability seems unlikely since I can’t make phone calls or drive to fetch the data they want or assemble medical records.

So this is me basically doing something, anything, trying to make a living. It’s also a test of whether or not I have silent readers that care. Everyone who writes with reform as a fantasy imagines they have readers, real fans, who just lurk.

I never really believed that but of course I thought about it, and loved ones assert they exist as a way to be encouraging. (Thank you.)

Is this the place the ghost town I think it is? I guess we’ll see.

Thanks for skimming.

I don’t have a name for this process but the goal is to replace the brain cell by cell as they die with prosthetic neurons.

Here’s the quick and dirty idea: You wear a scanner that monitors each neuron and builds a simulation of its activity, when a cell dies or demonstrates severe dysfunction a synthetic neuron is deployed to fill the vacancy.

Over time through natural attrition the brain is upgraded. This should bypass any problems with the notion of copies and originality. This process should give no more pause than day to day living.

It should also sidestep any upgraded transhuman concerns because the prosthetic cells need not be especially more advanced than natural neurons. Though of course if you could harden the brain vs stroke and the like, why wouldn’t you, on the grounds of preventative medicine.

This process could apply to any organ of course, for example the gut, which is proving to be part of the mind as well, though most organs we’re fine with hard swaps philosophically. I am not my liver. I am my brain. (And gut?)

I’m making peace with the fact that I’m too low rank socially to be preserved in such a way. And I’m too old to last until it’s cheap and ubiquitous. Still, maybe this information will help in the distant future when we have the technology.

Thanks for reading, please comment your thoughts.