the biodock is the central piece to the biostack. it is a hollow dish-shaped implant that is a container for other implants to go in and out of, allowing for upgradability and serviceability for implants - previous methods of just surgery simply do not allow for that.

common features of biodocks would include:

• implants that go in in an origami fashion and unfold, like this sattelite
• potential solar skin for implant charging
• flat cylinder/hexagon shape with rounded corners
• likely induction charging

strategies would have to be undertaken to make sure it cannot get infected if left hollow, without access for maintenance for long periods of time. these include

• it would have to be self-sealing
• it would likely have to be filled with a saline solution that bacteria and pathogens cannot grow in
• perhaps have onboard uv lights shining inwards to sterilize it

terminology used when talking about biodocks includes:

• the opening of the biodock is called the port. the actual hollow part is the dock. (think “usb port” - in tech contexts, a port does not contain the entire thing)
• subcutaneous means beneath the skin
• wetware is like biological hardware, coined by sci-fi writer Rudy Rucker in the 1980s
• inboard is used to describe an implant in the body (borrows from marine terminology - inboard vs. outboard engine on a boat)

materials to be investigated and configurations for biodocks include:

• carbon nanotubes to replace eegs
• silicone for soft biodocks (ideal when on top of soft tissue like muscle) (really similar to breast implants)
• titanium for hard biodocks (ideal when on top of bone)

here is a diagram as to where potential biodocks can go. realistically, we are left with only a few good options (most of them are where there is a large area where there is nothing between bone and skin), because of these considerations:

1. the biodock must go on a fairly rigid part of the body, that will not flex or move too much even with full range of human motion
2. if the biodock is impacted and nudged out of place or even fractured, there will not be any catastrophic injury to the wearer

Parts of the body

1. skull
2. scapula
3. sternum
4. hip/thigh
5. kneecap
6. ankle

as seen in the diagram, here with these configurations (these configurations are the obvious ones but definitely not exclusive), there are two placements where there is an either [two circles next to eachother] or [a larger length-wise oval pad] at the skull and the scapula. the oval configuration gives you more space to put things; the two circles mean significantly less risk of injury on impact.

the rest of this document will be exploring various configurations and installments to the biostack to illustrate the potential of the biostack.

skull

a subcutaneous biodock on the forehead of the skull could obiviously be used for neural interfaces. the port on the biodock could be used to put antennae on the forehead for wireless data transmission - literally allowing for custom cosmetic antennae (alien, bee, butterfly) - or, could be used for direct wired transfer.

materials to be investigated include carbon nanotubes as a replacement for eegs. they are very good conductors of electricity. it should [I NEED PROOF FOR THIS] have 100x greater resolution than eegs

scapula

the subcutaneous scapula placement for biodocks is optimal for several wetware compute options including more…

• onboard compute
• heat dissipation
• remote transmitting, using phased antennaes (like starlink terminals)
• and potential solar skin recharging

all at the benefit of…

• minimally invasive surgery
• muscle underneath to cushion potential impact

these benefits make the scapula ideal for a biometric kill switch.

sternum

obviously for heartbeat and lung monitoring. these currently already exist and may not require a biodock. not sure if there is any immediate obvious benefit from more onboard compute in this spot, if there is a compute-heavy biodock on the scapula

hip/thigh

this location gives access to lots of blood, making it optimal for a biochemical hema-rig, an in-board device that monitors blood endorphins, composition, levels of various things, and can administer cocktails of whatever compound for whatever performance.

this location could monitor for motion injury. could also help women giving birth

kneecap

lots of proposals for in-bone implants in the pantella. honestly that is probably more pragmatic than having a biodock on top of the panella - hitting your knee really hard and shattering the biodock would really suck. could host inboard compute

ankle

on the lateral malleolous (bone process at ankle with nothing between it and skin) on the tibula could go a biodock that monitors steps, movement more closely, and perhaps could administer electroshock to control muscles to minimize fall damage to body if a fall happens. inboard compute here could be very useful to detect falls

Biometric Kill Switch (BMKS)

the biometric kill switch (bmks) is an implant that has the main purpose to execute certain instructions on the wearer’s death or incapacitation. its form is a flexible radio transmitter dish on implanted top of the scapula that connects to an implantable loop recorder on top of the heart. later forms would also interface with devices that measure hormonal composition in bloodstream, movement, and brainwaves.

the flat form would ideally have inboard compute to deduce weather the wearer is alive, asleep, in a state of panic, or dead, from the heartbeat. similar to an apple watch. much more advantageous for our purposes here compared to a tooth transmitter. it would go in a biodock.

the scapula placement is chosen for all the reasons listed above in the “scapula” section.

• if impacted, the bmks has muscle underneath to cushion it (good for device and wearer) (the type of person who would want a bmks might be a person who gets into physical altercations)
• transmission of extra data to determine wearer’s state reliably

a technically viable alternative placement could be on top of the skull, but that sacrifices too much aesthetic value for it to be used in practice.

a wearer would want a bmks for any reason involving instructions being carried out on their death or things being known at their death. these include:

• they want to avoid unjust imprisonment
• they want to avoid being silenced
• you’re a whistleblower
• there are details of their will they want to hide
• there are details of their work they do not want people to know until after they are dead
• confessions
• blackmail
• they want a simulation of their consciousness to take precedence over their former living consciousness

imagine you testified against your former employer in court, perhaps you used to work for boeing. now your former employer can’t whack you because it would set off your bmks and then a script would go off revealing all the heinous shit about the company. they can kill you, but they can’t kill your secrets. the bmks allows you to trigger when to continue acting, posthumously

legal frameworks around prisoner’s rights for implants are extremely unexplored. I the author would like to see implants, even medically non-necessary ones, regarded as integral to bodily autonomy, and not at all (in the influence of the state). Potential avenues to explore for the sake of bodily implant autonomy in legal frameworks include:

• needs to be FEDERAL and not state dependent, perhaps even nationally codified in the UN for maximum effectiveness
• Prisoners retain constitutional rights to adequate medical care (Estelle v. Gamble, 1976)
• Removal could potentially be mandated as a condition of incarceration (similar to how prisons can require removal of non-medical piercings, grills, etc.) but this needs to be AVOIDED for implants

things to investigate include

• the viability of ml models written in forth
• hexagonally shaped chips

Biochemical Hema-Rig (BCHR)

could also be called “biochemical augmentation rig” or “biochemical hema-augmentor”

has two parts (1) an injection port for externally stored chemicals like the ones currently used for insulin and (2) sensors that monitor blood composition

like the death troopers from star wars