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You own your brain in the same sense that you own modern devices, you own it but also can't really modify it and there is some closed source shit that really control it (lemmy.world)
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Make our brains FOSS! Why can't I just tell my brain that now is sleeping time and it will just sleep?!

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[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days 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.