Who wrote the software running in your head?
Are you sure you actually want it there?
Normally the idea of quoting “famous” people is appealing as a root canal with no anesthetic, but this tweet by Elon Musk sums up so much about neurology and brains in general. For humans especially, conspecific behavioral training begins from birth and is an intense lifelong process which is so pervasive that it becomes completely invisible to individuals. Social training allows animals to trade their genetic (“instinctual”) behavior in favor of cooperation.
The cost of this is the ability to independently verify information, brains become so reliant on external verification of behavior that they have no ability to do so internally. When separated from the source of external verification (e.g. solitary confinement or sensory deprivation), brains can no longer provide even a minimum level of verification/error correction (they go “insane”).
The entire field of psychiatry is built around this premise, to enforce this external reliance on behavioral verification. And this is the core of the issue with psychiatry, and the reason why it’s doomed to heterogeneity. It’s purpose is not the individual, but enforcing externally acceptable behavior. That psychiatry as devolved into enforcing things like “personality” and even what “hobbies” individuals have, it’s time to take a hard look at what we are doing and hopefully do something different.
Who wrote the software in your head? Is that software efficient for your architecture? Does that software do what we think it does? Does that software have critical bugs? Are there security issues in that software? Can this software be updated without harming you?
What would software optimized for you look like? This should be the driving question for brain research going forward.