first time I hear of TMS. I find it sus for the same reason as I find electroconvulsive therapy sus. like, what’s the mechanism of the healing? sounds like it scrambles your brain and the new configuration is not depressed. but given this effect on depression, I would be worried about having other parts of me scrambled.
I think TMS doesn’t rewrite anything, instead activating neural circuits in another pattern? Then, new pattern is not depressed, brain can notice that (on either conscious or subconscious level) and make appropriate changes to neural connections.
Basically, I believe that whatever resulting patterns (including “other parts of you changed into something non-native and alien”) you dis-endorse, are “committed” with significantly lower probability.
“activating in another pattern” sounds similar enough to “scrambling”. so are you saying, the brain will keep/change the patterns based on them being good/bad? it would seem partly likely (on my model), like say the motor function is scrambled in a useless way, it would be rescrambled into a way that works by learning, and if it happens to work better it would be kept. but it seems unlikely this process would strongly reflect my deepest intellectual endorsement. there could be conscious feedback fixing it, but the worry extends into the feedback “getting scrambled”.
additional thought: I’d be especially worried about “destructive” changes—compare to lobotomy, it was also a procedure done directly on the brain that was considered to cure stuff, but now we consider it bad because it was destroying stuff.
Your concerns are valid, but the changes seem to be subjectively very minor. And depression is very very bad. So it’s an easy choice for anyone with real depression.
Your self isn’t going to receive your deepest intellectual endorsement without TMS either; we don’t have time to understand and supervise every change in our unconscious.
first time I hear of TMS. I find it sus for the same reason as I find electroconvulsive therapy sus. like, what’s the mechanism of the healing? sounds like it scrambles your brain and the new configuration is not depressed. but given this effect on depression, I would be worried about having other parts of me scrambled.
I think TMS doesn’t rewrite anything, instead activating neural circuits in another pattern? Then, new pattern is not depressed, brain can notice that (on either conscious or subconscious level) and make appropriate changes to neural connections.
Basically, I believe that whatever resulting patterns (including “other parts of you changed into something non-native and alien”) you dis-endorse, are “committed” with significantly lower probability.
“activating in another pattern” sounds similar enough to “scrambling”. so are you saying, the brain will keep/change the patterns based on them being good/bad? it would seem partly likely (on my model), like say the motor function is scrambled in a useless way, it would be rescrambled into a way that works by learning, and if it happens to work better it would be kept. but it seems unlikely this process would strongly reflect my deepest intellectual endorsement. there could be conscious feedback fixing it, but the worry extends into the feedback “getting scrambled”.
additional thought: I’d be especially worried about “destructive” changes—compare to lobotomy, it was also a procedure done directly on the brain that was considered to cure stuff, but now we consider it bad because it was destroying stuff.
[uninformed neurology is fun]
when you’re stuck at the bottom of an attractor a hard kick to somewhere else can be good enough even with unknown side effects.
Your concerns are valid, but the changes seem to be subjectively very minor. And depression is very very bad. So it’s an easy choice for anyone with real depression.
Your self isn’t going to receive your deepest intellectual endorsement without TMS either; we don’t have time to understand and supervise every change in our unconscious.