“I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. »
– Michel de Montaigne
Introduction to applied human neurosecurity
As a metaphysic experimenter, I appreciate loneliness.
I don’t expect people to understand most of my own thoughts in this section.
Psychiatry is a repressive system for people with bad behavior.
Today and tomorrow I am alone with myself and my cat.
In the last years I have learned that psychiatry is not meant to be a mainstream public health service. See comment above.
People having normal behavior generally can avoid psychiatric drugs when committing themselves to have a socially acceptable behavior.
I have been coerced many times to accept antipsychotics, simply because people cannot understand me properly.
As I am writing these lines, I’m still struggling to find a way to convince other peoples that psychiatric treatment is useless and potentially harmful to my health.
Unfortunately, changing the paradigm in health care is a slow process requiring profound changes in the public health industry.
Many psychiatrists will prefer to give higher doses of antipsychotics without any scientific justification for this treatment type.
This industrial mindset doesn’t specifically suits my own needs and can lead to abuses.
However, psychiatry can be helpful when someone cannot self-control himself without drugs.
In contrast, free neurosecurity training is dedicated to fill the gap between the physician and the patient.
First, by promoting self-experimentation, neurosecurity training can promote a pro-humanist and universal-like mental health approach.
Likewise, by promoting free access to psychological counseling, psychiatric treatment becomes useless for people with normal behavior.
But what happens when someone cannot afford to receive free psychological counseling?
Modern psychiatry is not a panacea and neither a long-term solution for people with prosocial behavior.
Thus, there’s a clear and urgent need for alternative solutions in order to decrease pressure on the public health industry.
To compensate with the inefficient public health industry is thus a prime goal of applied human neurosecurity.
Technically, this paradigm change may require a specific mindset in order to commit oneself in studying his own dialectical thinkings.
Mind wandering, as the capacity to transcend thoughts into specific behavioral responses, can promote self-learning of human consciousness.
In the next chapter, I will review Project STREET WISE, a experimental case-study on problematic smartphone use being a serious public health problem that can affect and potentially impair cognitive flexibility in a typical long-term user.
Problematic smartphone use
Project STREET WISE has been for me a way to learn more about problematic smartphone use and the emerging public health disaster associated to this novel pathology. By going in the streets of St-Jerome, I’ve collected notes to understand how and why cyberaddiction happens in a typical smartphone user.
I was in particular interested in understanding the differences in typical smartphone usage between male and female users. I’ve then set up a Twitter profile in order to publish my initial results. I found that female users typically becomes emotionally attached to their smartphone, becoming part of their identity. In contrast, I’ve noticed that male subjects were sometimes becoming aggressive when attempting to discuss with them in the streets about their smartphone usage.
Interestingly, most smartphone users tend to develop an intimate relationship with their mobile device, making me wonder how the brain may become addicted to chronic smartphone use. Based on this starting point, it became obvious that regular mobile device usage does affect the brain of the user without his full awareness or consent.
Moreover, I’ve also started to collecton my Twitter profile data about the pathogenesis of digital radicalisation, a secondary issue associated to problematic smartphone use. I’ve then noticed that many online users do share problematic smartphone use patterns connected to digital radicalisation when posting content on social networks.
In summary, Project STREET WISE helped me to develop a coherent and functional theory on mind wandering, the starting point in my research on problematic smartphone use. Although I’m not a qualified scientist, working on this research subject helped me to gain deep knowledge on ways to exploit mind wandering when interacting with others. In the next chapter, I will discuss about novel ways to harness mind wandering for enhancing human neurosecurity.
Neuropsychology of mind wandering
In my experience the best available way to exercise and stimulate self-awareness of my consciousness is by walking alone at a steady speed during an extended period of time. I’ve become so addicted to walking that i try to convince myself of walking on a daily basis for a minimum of 30-60 minutes.
This period of the day is dedicated to release stress resulting from my repeated failures to find a productive way to earn money, or employment, I believe. Being without employment indeed is a source of pathological stress that I must overcome every day by working towards my own specific life goals, independently of my former career as a software programmer. That is, to understand my own misfortune is a necessary step that I like to work on in order to find peace and happiness.
Hence, writing this handbook is actually helpful for understanding my current research in developmental neurosecurity…
In other words, I’ve developed a novel research domain based on practical mind wandering, in order to obtain reliable informations about my self-defined identity as a developer, scientist, and writer.
Part of my plans includes building a microjournal in order to promote awareness of this emerging research field. I’m also trying to become a better developer and scientist by working in these specific domains using my limited knowledge. All these experiments helped me to understand the limits of my human intelligence. In specific, human neurosecurity should be an open access research field for all. Most importantly, as a citizen science movement, applied human neurosecurity training aims to promote an accessible and equal-for-all scientific method to create and preserve human knowledge. In the next chapter, I will review the core technical aspects of studying human neurosecurity for prospective experimenters wishing to dive into more advanced topics.
Experimental neurosecurity
This chapter covers the core basics and fundamentals of applied human neurosecurity training. First, it is essential to understand the functions of mind wandering in order to dedicate oneself into the experimental science of human neurosecurity training. Thus, mind wandering can be seen as a developmental, adaptive, and human-friendly framework in order to enhance knowledge acquisition. Moreover, my current research suggest that the human brain has excellent innate capacity to learn and unlearn a massive quantity of informations.
This “meta-information” unfortunately is not accessible without conducting experiments on myself. It is by exercising this experience-type paradigm that I alone can go further into my own abstract thinkings, thereby harnessing my own cognitive limits as a human. Hence, I believe this novel human learning paradigm to be challenging our common views on the psychology of mind wandering itself and machine-based intelligence.
Human neurosecurity fundamentals
In contrast, human knowledge is created dynamically from novel experiences generating abstract memories and consciousness. Thus, a core problem with problematic smartphone use can be associated to impaired dialectical processing of novel meta informations in long-term users. This may result in irregular processing of synthetic-like knowledge, thus influencing long-term regulation of the brain (higher-order) neuronal activity.
Consequently, there is urgent need to better understand how dialectical processing can be impaired with excessive mobile device use, potentially leading to machine-based abuses of human rights. Likewise, human neurosecurity training can protect the integrity of human knowledge by enhancing semantic learning of novel experience-based memories, thereby impairing aversive fear conditioning.
In other words, the problematic smartphone use pathology provides significant evidences that applied human neurosecurity training can be a successful therapy for improving human dialectical processing agaisnt machine-generated online disinformation and propaganda.
Applied human neurosecurity advocacy, research and education
Fundamentally, applied human neurosecurity training is a feminist-friendly research domain….
Hence, I believe public health must be redesigned to promote fair and equal access to experimental medicine and psychology, in order to prevent abuses and medical errors with the former and outdated public health industry.
Most importantly, psychiatric treatment must be driven by patient-oriented experiences to limit and prevent medical abuses and overprescription of psychotropic drugs…
Thus, the scientific method being proposed through this book to manage human neurosecurity and protect cognitive plasticity is controlled exclusively by the subject via cognitive processing of conscious experiences.
Unlike in the traditional public health system, human neurosecurity cannot be exchanged or traded by a remote party or device. It is a exclusive learning paradigm developed by the subject for its own private use and needs.
Self-experimentation as a scientific method to investigate and improve human consciousness
The nature of the self requires experiments to understand the metaphysic of experience…
For example, when learning a new language, it can be helpful to exercise reading and writing without having full knowledge on the subject.
Human neurosecurity aims to promote a experience-driven (rationalist) approach to conscious self-thinking…
In contrast,medical experiments in psychiatry is not controlled directly by the patient…
it is my hope that applied human neurosecurity experiments could be designed to train positive self-love in the development of a upgraded ego.
Nonetheless, it appears likely that psychiatry can have positive outcomes when combined with a scientific method to create self-confidence in the patient.
Furthermore, a psychiatrist may prescribe drugs affecting the central nervous system requiring the patient consent. By establishing a positive trust relationship between the patient and the psychiatrist, the experimenter may improve or enhance the treatment results, with or without pharmacological support.
A humanist approach to applied human-human neurosecurity
The future development of a coherent humanist science to investigate self-knowledge metaphysics should not be limited to behavioral neuroscience in specific and should include novel domain-specific experimentations based on the free living nature of human consciousness.
Jack Bortone