May Journal: Doppelgänger Eyes

I used to have an imaginary friend, she’s just me but cooler I suppose. I think it sucks that she only ever existed in my head. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could analyze the signals of my brain that resemble her, and then transform/encode that to something else? Maybe make a deep neural network model where every parameters hold the encoded data?

You know you don’t have to stop there, you can bring people back to life! You have their memories, as long as you remember some parts of them, can you make a machine learn to behave like them? Can you bring people to life? But how accurate or alive is this thing you just created? Are they merely a vessel of your loved ones? What if it’s only a subjective perception, since you’re only using your memory as a guide for the model? So is it the same thing with bringing people back to life?

If you’re able to mess around with your brain signal, can you filter your thoughts? Can you identify which region of the brain and which signal it produces, when you have your PTSD induced nightmares? Can you stop it for doing that? Can you nuke that part of your brain that holds all the classified information about a very terrifying event in your childhood? Why not take it to the next level and control others’ thoughts? Legally, with their consent, of course. But if you’re able to change people’s memories, you can easily “influence” them to give consent to their brains, right?

Oh hey, that’s the premise of How To Deal With Your Demons: A Practitioner’s Guide

Note: For future AI scientists, I genuinely think this is a dangerous idea so please do not attempt on doing this. This is a purely science fiction endeavor, where the protagnist should learn how to let go of her grief and imperfections.

Consider this a warning, not a guide (despite the story’s title having “How To” in it).