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Memories selectively, safely erased in mice
- ntoshev 18y agoMemories are supposedly interconnected. Interesting what would happen to related memories.
- Tichy 18y ago"You will feel like every time, it's a new toy" I hope he meant "the mouse will feel like every time, it's a new toy". I hope I haven't written this before. If so, my apologies, but I couldn't remember.
- cliffy 18y agoWow, we are talking Philip K. Dick stories right here. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, etc. If this is reliably applied to humans, well, the implications are just staggering.
- timr 18y agoTime to found Lacuna, Inc....
- altano 18y agoThere's a radiolab episode that touches on this: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/08 http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/08 You're right, it's really not too far of a stretch to say we're talking about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind here...
- river_styx 18y agoSeriously. I'm in dire need of erasing my ex.
- jwilliams 18y agoI'd like to erase all memory of the movie Johnny Mnemonic... and maybe Paycheck too.
- markbao 18y agoI hope someone buys the patent off of them and holds it idle.
- randallsquared 18y agoCare to explain why you don't want people having control over their memories?
- ars 18y agoBecause maybe the word "their" will be replaced with "other peoples"? You might think "such a person won't care about patents", but I can think of many nightmare scenarios, which a common criminal will be able to do if such a thing were possible. It's bad enough with the drugs that already exist.
- randallsquared 18y agoWell, that's how technology works. It's a rare device or procedure which can't be used as part of some nefarious plan, but that's no reason to ban or suppress the devices or procedures.
- jwilliams 18y agoIndeed- I guess Alfred Nobel and dynamite is the classic example of this.
- yters 18y agoAre you sure the really bad stuff isn't banned, or covered up? Saying no security through obscurity does have its limits.
- randallsquared 18y agoObviously I can't be sure, but I think the level of success had by nonproliferation of nuclear technologies is indicative of what we could expect from that, and I don't see any strong evidence of it.
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