ehh i think the increasing popularity of meditation practices could make that unnecessary/undesirable, at least in the western world. people are unlearning the concept of a solid "personality" altogether and tapping into pure awareness and egoless-ness.
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To an extent this can already be done by changing the chemical composition of the nervous system. Changing your levels of testosterone, dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, estrogen, cortisol, GABA, and other neurotransmitters can profoundly influence mood, cognition, and behavior.
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Isn’t ‘profoundly’ too strong a word?
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Feel I'm stuck on the idea that our personalities are fixed concretely at around 17, and that we may chip away at this in an attempt to sculpt something more beautiful but the core remains the same.
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yeah from my understanding personality is fluid as one allows it to be. the vast majority of what we call our "personality" is just conditioned reactions.
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not just individually: models such as China's social credit system will enable better analytics in our efforts to reshape entire populations in desirable directions... "what is measured can be improved!" - Colonel Yang-Yeovil
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Our minds are basically software. As psychology, neurology and genetics improve, so will our ability to manipulate or even rewrite the software.....
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You'll certainly be able to make mind-modifications at some point. However informationally speaking we wouldn't be able to change anything we like because the information that determines the change must exist outside whatever information is being modified.
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What are you basing this prediction on? I've seen that personality can change when physical structure change, but not in a predictable way.
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