If you could walk into a clinic and have a memory erased, would you?
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If you could walk into a clinic and have a memory erased, would you?
http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movi...&trkid=1211017
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten.../313/5790/1141
Without a second's hesitation, yes.
Wouldn't you have to relearn everything though, you'd be pooping everywhere, not know the english language etc?
If I still have all that I would be very tempted.
No way.
I would.
have "a" memory erased. Singular.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thief Silver
Right now, it looks like it's all or nothing. But give it a few years, and they'll be able to single out shit.
yeah, maybe a handful
THESE THINGS, THESE THINGS I'VE SEEN!
So, soon it'll be like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?
Not a chance I'm letting anyone fuck with my memories. A healthy mind learns from them
All alone in the moonlight.
Probably not, bad memories build character or make great stories. My memory isn't very vivid anyhow...even things I'm not proud of I can barely feel/remember anymore.
Nah. Traumas keep you sharp. :lol:
As painful as memories can be, they make us who we are. Without those memories, we will have learned nothing, and we cannot become better people.
Yeah, as bad as some things may be I don't know if I would need to get rid of anything. This would be better for people with really bad PTSS or rape victims or something.
Thanks Calvin's dad. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by FuryFox
Kinda gotta agree with that. I doubt most rape victims would be against getting rid of that memory, including myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gohron
Besides that, no, I'll keep all the bad with the good. It makes me me.
He learned how not to poop everywhere and speak English in the same moment. Which is coinincidentally the memory he wants erased.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
He wants to talk less shit!
I've already erased memories with alcohol and I don't particularly like it. Unless I could erase other people's memories too, I don't think it would do a lot of good.
No.
Definitely. I'm pretty fucked up due to a lot of awful things in my past. Stuff no kid should have to go through. It hasn't shaped me or any other cool stuff like that. Just made me not trust people and wish to be left alone 99% of the time.
There's a lot of pop music I'd like to forget.
You changed my answer from no to yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
There's some books I have read, and movies I have watched, when I was too young to properly appreciate them. It'd be nice to erase that memory and experience them for the first time again.
I've never once felt that feeling. Then agian I was stunted and didn't get to see a lot of stuff until I was older and I didn't read a lot as a kid. But still I can't relate to that. I can, however, understand the sentiment.
I wouldn't mind erasing sex abuse and one particular drug experience.
I would never go to those brain butchers. I could have a schizoid embolism.
Yes so I can play Deus Ex and SS2 again
Your talking ancient history, nowadays it's safer than getting on a rocket.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hubbitron
Memory erasure would just be another way to change. Even if you forget some stupid thing you did in 1995, you'll still have the overall weight of the last 15 years of experiences to ensure that you don't do the same thing again.Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
This is good. Watch a movie, write about it, forget the whole experience then do it again 5 years later and see what's changed. Maybe I could read some of my own comics and see what they're like without knowing I made them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chun
I've gotten in way more trouble for shit I don't remember than for shit I do remember. Yeah, shit can suck. Sky's blue, water's wet, and Satan Claus is out to get you.
What would EBM do?