"""""""solve""""""""" autism

I can see where most of this is coming from though, ultimately there's no such thing as "normal".. arguably nothing around us is normal anymore to be entirely honest... Eversince humans started settling and changed from hunter gatherer nomads to building towns.. the very state of us seeing society as a normal thing with a "normal" human is an anomaly.

We have our genetics our believes, our bodily quirks, our society norms, even our damn circadian clock based on light exposure and microbiology dictating a lot of shit in our body....all of this regulates certain behaviours, neurotransmitter balance, hormones and whatnot...

Eventually something breaks. Great now you got a mutation, oh you pass this on. Oh now there's the trait of blue eyes.. you pass that on. We can call that a disorder but generally we do not.

It only becomes an issue if we start labeling things as diseases or illnesses, i get where teams like neuralink and such are coming from, "it can solve autism" and such because indeed you can help out people with ADHD and whatnot...

The problem comes from labeling it as a bad thing that needs "treatment"... That's trying to press your own belief system onto other people and kinda trying to play god.

ADHD is also only an issue if it's placed in the wrong envoirement just like autism.. we call that neurodivergent because it drifts off the norm. Naturally.... So we got to ask the question: does it need fixing? The odds are it doesn't.

We don't call trying to be healthier and trying to live longer without sickness a bad thing. But we lose our shit when scientists start talking about aging being a preventable disease... One thing kinda has that whole energy of "playing god" behind it.

That's the same thing with neurodivegency and even stuff like people trying to "solve" being gay... People for one reason or another label a thing as a disorder or a bad thing. Then said people want to get rid of it...

Give those people the scissors to gene edit or work around at the core of what makes a something.. condition a thing. Well that's how you get eugenics and designer babies and playing god... Which is bad. Unless we talk about trying to beat chronic diseases or cancer. We gladly play god there... Arguably knowing when certain genes express and whatnot is useful, epigenetics has its uses too.

That's also why this GMO debate will never stop because in Essence we humans have been gene editing both ourselves and our food since forever... Just now people got precision snipping tools and they can go mad with playing god.

Point I'm making / TLDR of it all:

we got to see things as they are. And news articles and futurist types like musk often times word things in ways that it sounds super mega awful. Logically media and we will also have our opinions on a subject. And media won't wait to just lunge at it with a shocking headline.

Thats ultimately the thing with neuralink.. it's a tool, read up what they actually mean, try to ideally understand what exactly they do, but be weary of the grim dystopian future such a thing can cause aswell.

Both sides of the argument are in essence just an ethical argument in the end. And in both cases. Looking at the details instead of just the flashy headline is important.

Because we got to remember just as much as no human is normal, media also knows this and abuses the fact that they exactly know how to write and word articles to stir outrage.

Read articles, better yet inform yourself on the proper peer reviewed studies on anything instead of trusting headlines ideally.

I neither want a dystopian future with designer babies nor do I want a mindless media following crowd. Shouldn't we strife to inform people and make systems better?

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