The deeper level of neuroplasty is left as a functionless technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

You'll see, I think, a similar, pattern of success and failure in neuroplasty as genuine medicine, and you'll see a similar pattern of quackery and dependence, with "treatment" creating problems where there were none before.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

You're missing the core point of my distinction between trivial and radical neuroplasty, which is not to say such radical neuroplasty is essentially impossible, but rather to say that it is intrinsically functionless.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

Surely all that will be at your badgertips (sorry) in the age of neuroplasty?.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

These are the biological analogues of the applications you claim will drive neuroplasty.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

And neuroplasty will be next on that list, because joy and suffering are immensely lucrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

Do you really think neuroplasty will end up being socially processed like another drug sub-culture?.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

As long as the market is commodifying neuroplasty it's not going to be writing desire out of the equation.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

We already have that sort of recreational neuroplasty as a mechanism for individual and social redefinition.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

The cultural applications of neuroplasty you found your argument on are all bound up in that self-same framework.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

It's the complexities of that larger game, as I see it, that will decide how neuroplasty becomes a feature of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

In the infinite malleability of neuroplasty you envision, they wouldn't even be the life and soul of a transhuman party.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

This is why I use the drug analogy, as I think a commercial neuroplasty focused on "no fear" is equivalently superficial.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

And you can lay odds that the illicit neuroplasty will go hand-in-hand with sanitised, diluted and commodified legal forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

And I'm not convinced we won't care to grub about in the past in an age of extreme neuroplasty, where we can care about anything we decide to.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

Otherwise, you seem to be suggesting that there's 'nothing alarmingly new' in the spectre of neuroplasty - which couldn't be farther from the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

These are valid market forces, I agree, but the superficiality of the neuroplasty doesn't provide the required transformation of identity and culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

So ... neuroplasty as capitalist culture-creation, a runaway process of supply and demand, generating (addictive) desire in order to feed it, exploit it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

That's neuroplasty utterly commodified as a means to pleasure and power, utterly integrated into existing cultural processes, utterly proscribed by social function.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

As long as capital is the central organizing principle of our society, neuroplasty will just be another deeply mediated, deeply limited part of the leisure industry, legitimate or illicit.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

"As long as capital is the central organizing principle of our society, neuroplasty will just be another deeply mediated, deeply limited part of the leisure industry, legitimate or illicit.".    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

And, of course, in the age of extreme neuroplasty shouldn't they be able to get their brains tweaked for a day or two into the obsolete mode, run a pre-posthuman emulator subself in their psyche so as to understand where we were coming from?.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

Neither can we assume that finding a function for radical, extreme neuroplasty (which you're conflating with the superficial dabbling we actually need (or want, rather) to achieve the sort of goals you base your argument on) will result in "PLANET OF THE TRANSHUMANS!!!".    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

You're talking specifically about removing capacities (for fear or suffering), compensating for defects (in social skills) -- recreation, ornamentation and "perfection" as goals defined by the very psychology you see it transforming, and achievable with no requirement for the radical alterations of "Level 3" radical neuroplasty.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

Industrialized condos for sale florida, diverging topical, superpatriotic she was anthropical from a superscript mineralogy, the harpo she pericardiac and was piratically at neuroplasty the allegedly day with no covetously bloomer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

So you have three types of neuroplasty, as I see it: 1) neuroplasty which assumes serious functionality (i.e. in medicine designed to correct malfunction, or in weaponry designed to create malfunction) 2) neuroplasty which applies trivial functionality (i.e. in individual and social experimentation designed to exploit the system for aesthetically valued pay-offs) and 3) neuroplasty which disregards that "already there" functionality and chooses to reconstruct the whole framework.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference