> 9. Reverse Engineer the Brain

For what purpose? To replace humans? To make social media more addictive? To master brain manipulation?

embedding-shape an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> 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 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'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.

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tantalor 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We 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.

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captainclam 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I imagine a good model of the brain would contribute enormously to alleviating psychiatric/mental health disorders.

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RajuChacha108 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

To do human brain activities at scale.

	▲	willy_k 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		So the second option then.
	▲	fcarraldo 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is called a “corporation”