(11-01-2016, 04:26 PM)Shannon Wrote: I theoretically can target specific end result pheromones, but it would require a vastly more complex method than I use right now. Right now I am using the equivalent of a hardware abstraction later built in to the "operating system", and what would be different is that I would have to "hard code the direct route".
In other words, right now, I am effectively saying to the subconscious... "I want end results A, B and C. Figure out how to get there safely, and then do that." If I tried to do it directly, I would have to somehow find a way to communicate what chemistry I needed ingested to extract the precursor molecules, which precursor molecules to extract, and exactly what to do with them. How do I communicate this to the subconscious, when I don't know the chemical requirements directly, and the subconscious may not know what 3ß-Androstanediol is, or any of the precursor chemistry?
It would stall development for literally years, and give no guarantee of success. So I will remain with the HAL method. We will just me more specific with exactly what results we want. But this does sound like a good goal for making the program work.
Yea that makes perfect sense, we know from lab tests that hormones levels do change based on your own beliefs. Amy Cuddy's testosterone experiments kind of pushed this to the mainstream but before that we know that when you take a lower ranking monkey and force him to be the alpha his dopamine levels shoot straight up. When you take another at low status and give it ketamine (creates more dopamine) he again rises to the top. It seems like you can either change your chemistry or your beliefs but either way you'll end up influencing the other.
