Metaneurodiagnostics project

From Biohack Mirror

The metaneurodiagnostics project is closely related to the cytodiagnostics project, however this is more of a "metacognition" project than anything else. The mind is the programmer, the programmed, and the program, all at the same time. Any programmer knows the importance of debugging as well as checking up on variables and logging. Usually, mental logging means journaling. However, with the advent of DNIs and MEAs and other BCIs, it should be possible to gain more information form the brain. This has not yet caught on. Meanwhile, the mind is still producing lots of new information, variations and combinations. The metaneurodiagnostics project exists to promote the recording of mental experiences, particularly the "number storm" that comes about while learning new avenues of mathematics, or the steps to realization of new ideas, in near-real time, perhaps as a separate writing scratch pad on the computer away from the other work.

Contents 1 Contamination 2 Erowid as an example 3 Implementation 4 Existing experience archives 5 Topics to write experience reports on

[edit] Contamination

Writing about the work of the mind contaminates the mind's work in that the more you vocabulate, the more you are focusing on a meta-aspect instead of whatever was being worked on in the first place. This is a fundamental problem according to the roadmap, and while it is a massive impediment to progress in metaneurodiagnostics, there is little reason to not try it out.

[edit] Erowid as an example

Erowid is a hallucinogenic-help-site with an interesting archive of drug-induced experiences. Some of the users are kind enough to provide near real-time recording of their experiences, describing what they do and what they are experiencing and what they think might be a result of the drug, etc. This experience archive is exactly the goal of a metaneurodiagnostics project.

[edit] Implementation

A simple website that aggregates various blogs will work quite easily. There is likely a website out there that specializes in hosting aggregate-portals.

[edit] Existing experience archives

• David Tall has published an example of 'experience recording' in mathematics, including the ups and downs and what he found, what was exciting and what turned out to be nothing at all.

[edit] Topics to write experience reports on

• Sciences
  • Reading papers
  • Websurfing
  • Discussions with other individuals
  • Writing papers
  • Brainstorming
• Mathematics
  • Reading papers
  • Doing math
  • ...