Ahhh, that’s how to be happy in this hell world! Seems I got the wrong lobes pierced!
FIRE IN THE HOLE!
BECKY, GET IN ON THIS HOT NEW TREND I FOUND IN ON NEXTDOOR. YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT.
People would do it. Join us, it’s bliss!
Looking forward to getting mine at Claire’s!
This is why if AGI is eventually created, making humans happy should NOT be an directive.
I don’t know, man… an ice pick scraping out your frontal lobe will make global warming far more tolerable.
And if they mess it up you don’t have to tolerate it at all!
Ah, the Phineas Gage approach. Nice.
Or rather the no longer phineas gage approach.
What the fuck how can anyone survive that ? What the hell ?
Like how an old twisted coathangar can still work fine as a radio antenna.
The inner workings of the mind are a mystery we we’ve hardly scratched the surface of understanding. His basic functions remained, but his demeanor and personality dramatically shifted. Let alone his survival. His case let us know that we don’t know shit, relatively speaking.
But why didn’t he blead to death or something . I thought the hospitals were a joke back then
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
It appears that he drove home, summoned the doctor, and they did the surgery at his house
Obviously, it’s because he keep kept standing, so the head was elevated above the heart, limiting the blood flow considerably.
That concludes my shitty fiction for the day…
Yes and they probably put leeches all over his wounds too.
Just pitch it to disney now or somethin.
Beats me, as the odds should have readily been against him. It’s a notable case for a reason.
Yeah it is a mystery i wonder how much of the facts we have about it is correct
Or JFK’s sister
Yeah, that one’s just tragic since it was done to her, rather than some accident. Shady “medical” practice.
They were all done to their patients. Parents did that shit to quiet up their kids. I had a semi rational fear of my own parents sending me off for some “treatment” for being too different growing up.
