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iPlant fiction This is a novel-in-progress by Chris Harris. It describes the development of iPlants from the perspective of reserchers working a in the private brain surgery industry. The different segments of the story are not in chronological order. In the novel, conditional rewarding brain stimulation (CRBS) has been introduced as a last-resort procedure to help morbidly obese patients exercise. The move was motivated by a worsening obesity-cardiovascular-neurodegeneration-aging epidemic, unsuccessful attempts to inhibit hunger in morbidly obese patients with traditional deep brain stimulation procedures (Hamani et al 2008), and several effective applications of CRBS to motivate exercise in rats (Burgess et al 1991, Garner et al 1991). Following success in several hospitals, the procedure is rapidly applied to a wide variety of patient groups and behaviours, including learning. As the effectiveness and safety of the implants improve, an increasing number of clinically healthy individuals choose to undergo the surgical procedure, and private clinics specializing in the procedure become increasingly lucrative. Ike, Meg, Lucy and the narrator Chris conduct R&D at such a clinic/company. Their research is necessarily self-experimental. The novel begins with the public launch of the 'iPlant' - an advanced CRBS implant aimed at a general market, which, unlike previous CRBS implants, targes dopamine and serotonin nuclei directly. Chapter 1 >> Chapter 2 >> Chapter 3 >>  Download all
available chapters as a PDF file Work in-progress or that didn't make it into the novel:
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New questions about the iPlant (February 2010) At the International Neuromodulation Conference in Seoul (September 2009) Does secularism fuck you up? (pt.2, pt.3) (June 2009) What we need to accelerate biomedical research and fight aging (May 2009) I can has freedom and dignity? (April 2009) Using Medtronic's Reclaim implant to generate artificial motivation (March 2009) Wired-article-induced neuroscience rant (March 2009) Riding a bike (December 2008) How compliant do we want our children to be? (December 2008) Thoughts on forks (December 2008) Aging (November 2008) Brainbeat (October 2008) |
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The iPlant: Making life easier for the lazy?
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Enogamez iPlant (June 2009) Something Awesome iPlant Brain Implant Advocated for Self-Improvement (June 2009) Technovelgy iPlant - the motivational implant (June 2009) Futurismic A prosthetic motivational system (April 2009) Emerging Ideas Self-determination for the 21st century (April 2009) psique The iPlant (May 2008) Brain Stimulant |
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