# Biohacking

## Purpose

Biohacking spans established tools, active research, speculative medicine, wellness markets, and miracle-repair lore. No Tile provides medical advice. This chapter is an index and a method: it shows how to explore the subject without collapsing documented history, current research, reported experience, fiction, community belief, and Oracle synthesis into one truth claim.

## Reading Method

1. **Locate the Tile.** Read its Primary Class to learn what kind of thing it is, then its Inquiry Domains to learn which questions it can illuminate.
2. **Name the material mode.** A science-fiction, mythology, political-mythology, experiential-report, or established-science label identifies context; it is not a score of spiritual or personal importance.
3. **Read claims layer by layer.** Begin with the literal-and-empirical layer, then the cultural-and-historical layer, and only then the symbolic-and-divinatory layer. An evidence state applies to one bounded claim, not to the Tile as a whole.
4. **Open the sources.** A concept-specific citation can support a history or bounded claim. A class-level contextual citation only locates the Tile in a wider field. Neither one certifies every interpretation.
5. **Follow typed edges.** Compare the exact verb and rationale. “Fictionalizes,” “opposes,” “echoes,” and “investigated-by” are not interchangeable. A resemblance edge is not proof of historical influence.
6. **Integrate through action.** Use Gift, Shadow, Threshold, and the integration practice to identify one grounded choice that remains useful even if a favored ontology is wrong.

## Worked Comparison

1. **Evolution** is a Forces Tile centered on Body & Evolution. Its literal layer is **well-established**; its symbolic question is: “Which part of Evolution is observation, inherited story, active claim, or chosen symbol? Answer by testing how change across generations placed within body & evolution changes the conditions under which every actor chooses against embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation.”
2. **Artificial General Intelligence** is a Beings & Roles Tile centered on Intelligence & Otherness. Its literal layer is **active-research**; its symbolic question is: “What changes when look for learning, intention, reciprocal response, refusal, and alternatives to human resemblance, rather than assuming the preferred interpretation? Answer by testing how the artificial motif, the general motif, and capacity to model and choose acting together introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter against agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own.”
3. **Generation Ship** is a Worlds & Places Tile centered on Body & Evolution. Its literal layer is **fictional**; its symbolic question is: “Where is the generation motif meeting the ship motif shaping the situation, and what would make the response more accountable? Answer by testing how the generation motif meeting the ship motif sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action against embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation.”

Compare these examples by asking what changes when the class, evidence state, or edge verb changes. Do not treat the most vivid Tile as the most factual. When a reading crosses into health, identity, conspiracy, or current politics, show the card’s safety flags and preserve an alternate explanation.

## System Links

- [How to Use](HOW-TO-USE.md) for reference, reading, and game workflows.
- [Graph](GRAPH.md) for edge semantics and provenance.
- [Divination](DIVINATION.md) for reflective reading rules.
- [Glossary](GLOSSARY.md) for Classes, Domains, Modes, and Evidence States.
- [Source Registry](../research/SOURCE-REGISTRY.md) for source tiers, scope, and rights.

## Canonical Tiles

- [Evolution](../cards/forces/sfoc-forces-evolution.md) — The working core of Evolution is change across generations placed within body & evolution: a pattern that can reorganize attention, relation, and action. established findings do not automatically support later extraordinary extensions.
- [Artificial General Intelligence](../cards/beings/sfoc-beings-artificial-general-intelligence.md) — Artificial General Intelligence is a way of encountering the artificial motif, the general motif, and capacity to model and choose acting together. Its Oracle use joins an agent, intelligence, identity, or recurring role to the question of agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own.
- [Generation Ship](../cards/worlds/sfoc-worlds-generation-ship.md) — The working core of Generation Ship is the generation motif meeting the ship motif: a pattern that can reorganize attention, relation, and action. narrative truth does not establish literal availability.
- [Anti-Gravity](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-anti-gravity.md) — Within the Oracle, Anti-Gravity holds together the anti motif meeting the gravity motif and embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.
- [Matter Compiler](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-matter-compiler.md) — Matter Compiler names a threshold where physical substance and mass-energy meeting the compiler motif changes what participants can notice or do. The card keeps a physically or conceptually motivated extrapolation distinct from symbolic use.
- [Holodeck](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-holodeck.md) — At the center of Holodeck is the holodeck motif placed within body & evolution. The card treats that tension as a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing, bounded by narrative truth does not establish literal availability.
- [Neural Lace](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-neural-lace.md) — Neural Lace gathers a field around signal exchange with nervous systems meeting the lace motif. Its deeper subject is transformation can expand capacity or rank bodies against an imagined ideal.
- [Age Regression](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-age-regression.md) — Age Regression gathers a field around the age motif meeting the regression motif. Its deeper subject is transformation can expand capacity or rank bodies against an imagined ideal.
- [Cryonics](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-cryonics.md) — the cryonics motif placed within body & evolution is the engine beneath Cryonics. As a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing, it reveals how a local image can carry system-scale consequences.
- [Longevity Escape Velocity](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-longevity-escape-velocity.md) — Longevity Escape Velocity gathers a field around the longevity motif, the escape motif, and the velocity motif acting together. Its deeper subject is transformation can expand capacity or rank bodies against an imagined ideal.
- [Med Bed](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-med-bed.md) — A speculative healing chamber associated with regeneration, age reversal, and suppressed-technology lore.
- [Structured Water](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-structured-water.md) — A meeting point among water chemistry, contested biophysical hypotheses, wellness claims, and ritual symbolism.
- [Gene Editing](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-gene-editing.md) — Gene Editing brings heritable biological instruction meeting the editing motif into focus. It operates as a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing and asks how embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation alter practical choice.
- [CRISPR](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-crispr.md) — Read CRISPR as a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing shaped by the crispr motif placed within body & evolution. The useful inquiry is not belief alone, but what name the mechanism, affected body, evidence, risks, alternatives, consent, and follow-up.
- [Epigenetic Switch](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-epigenetic-switch.md) — Read Epigenetic Switch as a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing shaped by the epigenetic motif meeting the switch motif. The useful inquiry is not belief alone, but what name the mechanism, affected body, evidence, risks, alternatives, consent, and follow-up.
- [DNA Activation](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-dna-activation.md) — the dna motif meeting the activation motif gives DNA Activation its distinctive charge. Read it through embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation, with assumptions, feasibility constraints, and discriminating tests kept visible.
- [Organ Regeneration](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-organ-regeneration.md) — Within the Oracle, Organ Regeneration holds together the organ motif meeting the regeneration motif and embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.
- [Biohacking](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-biohacking.md) — the biohacking motif placed within body & evolution is the engine beneath Biohacking. As a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing, it reveals how a local image can carry system-scale consequences.
- [Wearables](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-wearables.md) — Wearables frames the wearables motif placed within body & evolution as a decision environment rather than a finished answer. Its evidence discipline is mechanism, measurement, uncertainty, and replication.
- [AI Agent](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-ai-agent.md) — AI Agent brings the ai motif meeting the agent motif into focus. It operates as a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing and asks how embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation alter practical choice.
- [Dyson Sphere](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-dyson-sphere.md) — Dyson Sphere brings the dyson motif meeting the sphere motif into focus. It operates as a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing and asks how embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation alter practical choice.
- [Fusion](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-fusion.md) — Read Fusion as a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing shaped by the fusion motif placed within body & evolution. The useful inquiry is not belief alone, but what name the mechanism, affected body, evidence, risks, alternatives, consent, and follow-up.
- [Out-of-Body Experience](../cards/states/sfoc-states-out-of-body-experience.md) — Within the Oracle, Out-of-Body Experience holds together the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together and embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.
- [Astral Projection](../cards/states/sfoc-states-astral-projection.md) — Astral Projection concentrates the astral motif meeting the projection motif into a condition of mind, body, identity, or society that can be inhabited. Its value lies in examining embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation without exceeding the evidence layer.
- [Altered State](../cards/states/sfoc-states-altered-state.md) — The working core of Altered State is the altered motif placed within body & evolution: a pattern that can reorganize attention, relation, and action. respect for testimony does not require certifying one external cause.
- [Chapel Perilous](../cards/states/sfoc-states-chapel-perilous.md) — The threshold where coincidence, paranoia, revelation, and play become difficult to distinguish.
- [True-Believer State](../cards/states/sfoc-states-true-believer-state.md) — True-Believer State brings the true motif meeting the believer motif into focus. It operates as a condition of mind, body, identity, or society that can be inhabited and asks how embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation alter practical choice.
- [Epistemic Trust](../cards/states/sfoc-states-epistemic-trust.md) — The working core of Epistemic Trust is the epistemic motif meeting willing reliance under uncertainty: a pattern that can reorganize attention, relation, and action. respect for testimony does not require certifying one external cause.
- [Dissociation](../cards/states/sfoc-states-dissociation.md) — the dissociation motif placed within body & evolution gives Dissociation its distinctive charge. Read it through embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation, with phenomenology, context, care, and multiple possible explanations kept visible.
- [Genetic Memory](../cards/states/sfoc-states-genetic-memory.md) — Seen closely, Genetic Memory is about the genetic motif meeting continuity through retained traces under conditions of continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together. That frame makes its gift, shadow, and limits readable together.
- [Generational Trauma](../cards/states/sfoc-states-generational-trauma.md) — Generational Trauma names a threshold where the generational motif meeting the trauma motif changes what participants can notice or do. The card keeps lived and reported experience distinct from symbolic use.
- [Light Body](../cards/states/sfoc-states-light-body.md) — The working core of Light Body is the light motif meeting embodied capacity and limit: a pattern that can reorganize attention, relation, and action. spiritual use is not blanket empirical verification.
- [Crystalline Body](../cards/states/sfoc-states-crystalline-body.md) — Crystalline Body brings the crystalline motif meeting embodied capacity and limit into focus. It operates as a condition of mind, body, identity, or society that can be inhabited and asks how embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation alter practical choice.
- [Belonging](../cards/states/sfoc-states-belonging.md) — Belonging offers an instrument for reading the belonging motif placed within body & evolution. It becomes useful when interpretation remains answerable to name the mechanism, affected body, evidence, risks, alternatives, consent, and follow-up.
