Category Archives: Lab of the Self

Muscle Memory Experiment = I Shocked My Face, Apparently Just For Fun

I started off with the idea that if a muscle contraction sequence could be repeated enough times then it would create muscle memory. I tried to make a sequence with muscle stimulators on a group of muscles that I don’t … Continue reading

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Self Lab midterm – Self Tracking Project

I’ve always been skeptical of drugs like Adderall and Ritalin. My impression of them was, until recent, pretty antiquated; all of my knowledge coming only from speculation of other people and stuff I may have overheard. I decided to try … Continue reading

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After a while, a ball thrown at the head causes instinctive and appropriate ducking

I appreciated the way Andy Clark defined his terms at the beginning of his article, “Re-inventing Ourselves”. This allowed him to talk about what was possible and likely in this technology’s evolution and separated the qualitative information from the initial … Continue reading

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