• A participant describes personal “cyborg moments”: using a walking stick as both support and tactile sensor, and experiencing post-study dreams in which newly-learned conceptual frameworks (organic chemistry, metacircular evaluators, continuum mechanics) are spontaneously processed while asleep.

• Discussion of the blue-field entoptic phenomenon (“seeing stars”) as a perceptible modulation of retinal signals caused by blood-cell shadows; the same participant reports a sudden, anesthesia-triggered “explosion” of the visual field during a dental procedure, followed by gradual fade-out.

• Debate over what counts as “neural processing”: one view treats any systematic stimulus-response relation as computation, even when it occurs entirely outside the cranial cavity (e.g., spinal reflexes); the other cautions that equating neurons with simple logic gates is a “gross oversimplification” given the complexity of ion-channel dynamics and electromagnetic field interactions.

• Mention of long-standing implanted EM antennae paralleling the mandible and a rejected proposal for removable orthodontic retainers instead of fixed metal braces, illustrating early DIY biohacking concerns about reversibility and control.

• Reference to “Cuil theory” (an informal internet scale of surreal abstraction) as a humorous lens for classifying the intelligibility of highly abstract or recursive discourse; linked to the challenge of distinguishing genuine insight from layered gibberish in transhumanist conversations.