In the health area, “brain-computer interfaces, polymers in biomedical research, genetic engineering, and, perhaps the most sci-fi of all, synthetic organs” are all topics where the work that’s not easily done as an individual and thus it’s hard to apply divergent thinking at your questions.
On the other hand a question about whether or not you should supplement hyaluronan is a biohacking question for which you can actually read papers and think through the implications. If you pursue such a research question you will find a lot of biology that you don’t understand and then learn about it.
Your current tastes orient you towards sci-fi instead of orienting yourself toward empiricism. This is not good if you are interested in divergent thinking and biohacking. I did start out studying bioinformatics myself, so I had a similar perspective when I entered university where my taste was probably more driven by sci-fi then empiricism.
You can read gwernto get a sense of what kind of experiments would be actually in your reach to run yourself. There’s no requirement to first get your degree for doing divergent thinking in the health area. Your degree might take up a lot of time that you need to spent with root learning, but if you aren’t doing divergent thinking regarding biohacking outside of that, that’s on you.
LessWrong is a good place where you can publish a post if you delved into a biohacking related research question or ran self experiments.
In the health area, “brain-computer interfaces, polymers in biomedical research, genetic engineering, and, perhaps the most sci-fi of all, synthetic organs” are all topics where the work that’s not easily done as an individual and thus it’s hard to apply divergent thinking at your questions.
On the other hand a question about whether or not you should supplement hyaluronan is a biohacking question for which you can actually read papers and think through the implications. If you pursue such a research question you will find a lot of biology that you don’t understand and then learn about it.
Your current tastes orient you towards sci-fi instead of orienting yourself toward empiricism. This is not good if you are interested in divergent thinking and biohacking. I did start out studying bioinformatics myself, so I had a similar perspective when I entered university where my taste was probably more driven by sci-fi then empiricism.
You can read gwern to get a sense of what kind of experiments would be actually in your reach to run yourself. There’s no requirement to first get your degree for doing divergent thinking in the health area. Your degree might take up a lot of time that you need to spent with root learning, but if you aren’t doing divergent thinking regarding biohacking outside of that, that’s on you.
LessWrong is a good place where you can publish a post if you delved into a biohacking related research question or ran self experiments.