why do we need drugs to get high? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

[xxsicknessxx]

I don't get it. The body can make you see things with out drugs. Look at crazy people. The body can make you feel high, it can speed you up, slow you down, make you dream, make you sleep, produce pain killers. The body can do anything so why do we need drugs?

I know some people claim they can control there body. But is it true?

Why if im in pain can't I use my mind to stop the pain? Why can't I make my self sleep when I wan't to, why can't I dream when I want, or trip out when I want, or get high when I want? Why do I need drugs for this why would my body let my self get addicted. It doesn't make sense to me.... I mean.. will computers some day let us control more of us? Perhaps like phillip k dick sci fi book turned movie (blade runner) or do Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep with the mood organ. Program it to happy, to sad, to bliss, to sleep...

WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to enjoy my self I don't get why were not spending billions on something like this. we could end drug abuse in a day. If you could push a button and get the same high from herion as if you shot up wouldn't you push the button? Use the computer. Then click on bliss and go about your day........

why. why does are body betray us at every turn

 

[freehugs]

Because, without proper training and discipline (meditation), most if not all of the bodily functions that would make you feel high, such as the release of serotonin or dopamine, are not able to be controlled with your conscious mind.

 

[nAON]

The same reason people can't just eliminate the feeling of hunger when they haven't eaten.

Let's say we have a human who can make themselves high at any moment. Would that person be on edge all day in terms of survival? Would that person be out all day looking for food? Or would that person just sit around all day doing nothing? From an evolutionary perspective, it decreases the fitness of that person.

From a health perspective too - getting high is a 'side effect' of those neurotransmitters being messed around. Would you advocate that someone be able to change their blood glucose levels at will, too?

 

[fridgebuzz]

Bliss is meant to reward us after we've worked to achieve stability. If we could feel bliss whenever we wanted where would the motivation be? I you could just hit the blizz button and go about your day I'd say your day would be spent withering away in bed.

 

[swilow]

I think, on a purely practical level, that humans are never going to be able to interface with computers in a totally seamless and natural way. Human life is very complex, and we have so little understanding of the small complexity that marks the difference between, say, happiness and joy, or calmness and confidence. I can imagine humans eventually might being able to map out the multitude of emotional states that beset us, but right now, I believe its beyond us.

On a spiritual level, I think that a machine generating emotional states will always be very clear to us that it is a machine. The general mindstate of humans is rarely so simple as to be made up of only one or two emotions. Perhaps one or two emotional states, but generally there are many nuanced and subtle feelins being experienced at once. It would be hard to feel only one pure emotion or one pure state-of-mind or state-of-being, it would collapse (paradoxically maybe) because it would be difficult for the mind to accept. I've felt that way when reflecting on extreme depressive states. The sheer dominance of an almost total negative mindset feels almost artificial and robotic. Theres none of the normal fluctutations which give rise to human passion and creativity. Its like one dominant droning note drowning out, and eventually silencing, a whole orchestra. I don't think humanity is designed for such dualistic or binary emotional states.

In a sense, I understand why the OP wonders why we don't design computers or machines to "fix us". Persoanlly, I don't think its possible, but moreso, I don't think its what humanity and earth need right now. We need to be humans, with flaws and weaknesses, at this time in history so we can try and fix our planet and try and grasp our place on earth more clearly. Endless happiness would result in a massive degradation of our potential for life, thus ending us up in a state of unhappiness or extinction. Happiness is a warm gun....