[HN Gopher] The messy quest to replace drugs with electricity
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       The messy quest to replace drugs with electricity
        
       Author : sharpshadow
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2024-05-31 05:29 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | sharpshadow wrote:
       | https://archive.is/8SNiz
        
       | illuminant wrote:
       | Not just "electricity", constructive and destructive
       | interference. Pulse modulation, standing waves, directed
       | patterns, there's a whole new language life speaks that
       | 'electricity' is only a bridge medium. Sound too! We're
       | instruments, and much of our ills come from poor tuning.
        
       | achillesheels wrote:
       | 'Body Electric' is a great read on how electrical the body is,
       | such as with wound repair. I wish the medical sciences could look
       | at the body's domain from an electromagnetic paradigm to
       | understand the electrostatics of drugs, but better yet, map the
       | bio electronic circuits completely. That will go a long way of
       | being able to duplicate them for body tissue reincarnation and
       | then "self-migration" into a fresh body with the equivalent
       | neural networks in tact. The body reincarnate.
        
         | justonenote wrote:
         | Regardless of how outlandish this seems, this idea and the
         | similar idea of uploading yourself into an exact digital copy
         | to live forever don't seem too appealing to me, for the obvious
         | reason that it's a copy of you, you (the original) would still
         | exist, and die, so what's the benefit to you?
         | 
         | I don't think I'd like knowing that that there was an exact
         | copy of me living on while I (the original) dies. And it seems
         | incredibly egotistical that you would think this is a net good
         | for anybody, that it's worth having a clone of yourself (no
         | matter how exact) living on, and taking up resources etc.
        
       | koolala wrote:
       | https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m080YJset14k...
        
       | 01100011 wrote:
       | Somewhat related:
       | 
       | Toward AI-Driven Discovery of Electroceuticals - Dr. Michael
       | Levin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pG6V4SagZE
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       | tldr; non-neural bioelectricity can enable novel bioengineering
       | techniques.
        
       | mholt wrote:
       | I know some families that swear by their Healy, a MLM-marketed
       | device that claims it can help ease muscle tension and a whole
       | swath of other health problems, using electric diodes or even
       | just resonate frequencies over the air.
       | 
       | While I think there's something to it, after seeing the app,
       | though, I question its legitimacy. It claims to scan your
       | biosignals by placing your thumb on the phone screen and it has a
       | progress bar that variably increases at the exact same bezier
       | curve rate every time, and then it computes the optimal vibration
       | program for you. But phones don't have hardware or at least the
       | APIs to do that, I'm pretty sure?
       | 
       | But I can't argue that it has seemed to help tame migraines,
       | placebo or not.
        
         | ileonichwiesz wrote:
         | Lmao a phone definitely can't scan your "biosignals" through
         | the screen, seems like obvious mumbo jumbo
        
       | hole_in_foot wrote:
       | Who the hell pays $80 dollars a year to read this stuff?
        
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