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It's not the next step. That was the previous step. It's already known and demonstrated many times that deletion is possible, so now they wanted to know if they
by macrolime 7y ago
It's not the next step. That was the previous step. It's already known and demonstrated many times that deletion is possible, so now they wanted to know if they could also create memories.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_erasure https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_erasure
- sysbin 7y agoI'v been aware of some of the work you're referencing because of the popular goal for solving ptsd in psychiatry. The methods of "drug-induced amnesia, selective memory suppression, destruction of neurons, interruption of memory, reconsolidation,[1] and the disruption of specific molecular mechanism" are not necessarily as great comapred to what was done in the article where optogenetics is referenced as the method of creating memories. The current methods being used to attempt at deleting memories have resulted in consequences and typically considered extremely dangerous because of the inaccuracy of the methods. Making me skeptical if it's not just damage to the brain.
- macrolime 7y agoSure, if you want to ensure 100% that's there's no collateral damage to any other memories than what you try to delete, more refined methods like optogenetics will be needed.