A serial cheater asked Reddit users if he should be a ‘Neuralink hamster’ to get rid of his constant need to be unfaithful to his wife.
The user who goes by the name Electronic-Camera277 said in a Reddit post that he hopes Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip implant can cure him of his endless bouts of infidelity to save his marriage.
Although serial cheating, also known as sex addiction, is considered a disease, psychologists say it is something that can be overcome with therapy, meaning a brain chip implant may not be the most effective way to remain faithful. to your couple.
A Reddit user said he has been unfaithful to his wife more times than he can count and is considering a Neuralink brain chip implant to cure him of his infidelity.
“Reddit is a hotbed of conversations and opinions about infidelity; it’s one of the first platforms cheaters turn to for advice, but reaction and support is mixed,” said Jessic Leoni, infidelity expert at Illicitencounters. com. daily star.
“There is no doubt that Neuralink is far from a solution to serial cheating and addiction treatment in general, no matter how big Elon Musk’s claims are.”
Neuralink successfully implanted its first chip last month as part of the PRIME study, which aims to allow people with quadriplegia to control devices with their thoughts, such as opening an app, clicking, or moving a cursor up and down.
Neuralink’s brain chip is currently being tested to treat people with quadriplegia
“The device is designed to interpret a person’s neural activity so that they can operate a computer or smartphone simply by thinking about moving; no cables or physical movement are required,” the company said.
However, for all the potential capabilities the Neuralink brain chip has, curing someone’s mental health, and in particular their need for infidelity, is not one of them.
The Reddit user saying He has cheated on his wife “more than I can count” and claimed he has received therapy to treat his sex addiction, but still finds it difficult to stop.
This thought process led him to research and consider alternative treatments, he said, adding, “I’m so desperate that I’m even considering Elon Musk’s Neuralink implant to help treat addiction.”
He then asked the Reddit community: ‘Will my wife ever forgive me?’ Should she tell him? Should she be a Neuralink hamster? It’s worth a try?
Elon Musk said he hopes the chip can eventually help regulate people’s moods and cure disorders.
Musk has boasted for years that his Neuralink brain chip could be used to regulate people’s hormones and emotional well-being and could be a breakthrough for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or treatment-resistant depression.
In 2020, the tech titan claimed that the Neuralink chip has the ability to monitor emotions and mood and could even be used to treat addiction.
A Twitter user asked Musk at the time: “Can Neuralink be used to retrain the part of the brain responsible for causing addiction or depression?” He Independent reported.
Musk responded: ‘Sure. This is great and scary at the same time. All we have ever felt or thought about has been electrical signals.
Despite a controversial history of animal testing, the first human was implanted with a chip by Elon Musk’s company Neuralink.
‘The early universe was just a soup of quarks and leptons. How did a very small part of the universe begin to be considered sentient?
The reality is that the technology doesn’t exist yet, and those seeking sexual addiction treatment, like Electronic-Camera277, should explore more effective and well-established methods, such as counseling and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBD).
CBD is the most common form of therapy for sex addiction because it helps the patient identify and process the thought patterns and beliefs that led them to this point.
But many Reddit users criticized Electronic-Camera277, telling him not to blame “sex addiction” for his infidelity, a thought shared by the Center for Positive Sexuality (CPS), the Alliance for Health Research in Sexualities Alternatives (TASHRA) and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF).
The groups wrote in 2017. statement that so-called sexual “addictions” may be due more to a person’s cultural or religious beliefs than to actual scientific data.
The concept of sex addiction “emerged in the 1980s as a socially conservative response to cultural anxieties,” the authors wrote, “and has gained acceptance thanks to its reliance on medicalization and the visibility of popular culture.”
Compulsive sexual behavior is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5), the reference guide for mental illnesses published by the American Psychiatric Association.
The APA rejected a proposal to include sex addiction (hypersexual disorder) in the DSM-5 manual, citing “lack of evidence and possible consequences of calling excessive sexual activity a ‘pathology’ (calling it a disease or disorder).” according Cleveland Clinic.
Reddit users seemed to echo this notion, with one writing, “Every time you cheat on her, you’re making a conscious decision to do so.”
‘…You’re out there meeting people, saving their numbers, going on dates, arranging locations, making up lies for both your wife and the people you’re meeting.
“It rarely happens or ‘happens.’
While Electronic-Camera277 echoes the problems faced by many others and attempts to turn to Neuralink for help, the reality is that brain chip implants are not and reportedly will not be the answer for some time.