Timeline for Technology that steals memories
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| Jul 1, 2017 at 11:39 | vote | accept | JanT | ||
| Jun 30, 2017 at 18:27 | comment | added | user3652621 | Easy -- destructive read. | |
| Jun 29, 2017 at 18:12 | comment | added | workerjoe | There was a movie called "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" that posited the existence of such a technology. I can't remember their fictional scientific explanation but you might find it worthwhile to watch it. The interesting twist is that the subject experiences the memory (I think, to allow the doctor to locate it in the brain) during the process of removing it. In the movie, this means that there's a lingering emotional after-effect in the subject, which could maybe be useful in a story... | |
| Jun 29, 2017 at 17:54 | comment | added | kettlecrab | To delete a memory requires deleting it out of all contextual associations and removing all emotions and sensational data surrounding it. If memories are strewn across the mind, that could pose a significant challenge to any realistic answer posed here. | |
| Jun 29, 2017 at 12:26 | answer | added | mouviciel | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 29, 2017 at 10:43 | comment | added | Christopher King | Is hypnosis allowed? | |
| S Jun 29, 2017 at 10:29 | answer | added | Liquid | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Jun 29, 2017 at 10:29 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 29, 2017 at 9:50 | comment | added | Mederic | You could use something similar that was used in Incorporated if you want sci-fi they read the memories and deleted them. digitaltrends.com/movies/incorporated-syfy-dystopian-future | |
| Jun 29, 2017 at 8:04 | answer | added | Herr Derb | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 29, 2017 at 7:27 | history | edited | Secespitus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 29, 2017 at 7:20 | comment | added | Rekesoft | @TheNate I don't know. There are some techniques to delete - or at least erode - memories, but the only known mehtod of reading is making someone to tell them to you. Information stored in the brain is probably codying in a way that only makes sense to that particular brain and trying to remotely extract those memories is probably goign to end in a lot of indeciferable garbage. In far-fetchiness terms it's hard to quantify which is harder to believe, methinks. | |
| Jun 29, 2017 at 5:57 | answer | added | Ben | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 20:50 | answer | added | N2ition | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 19:53 | answer | added | Jasmijn | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 19:38 | comment | added | The Nate | The loss of the memory is more far fetched than simply copying it would be. | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 19:09 | answer | added | KarlKastor | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 17:35 | answer | added | Vylix | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 17:16 | answer | added | K. Morgan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 16:36 | answer | added | Adamo | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 16:28 | answer | added | Philipp | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 16:23 | comment | added | JustSnilloc | Just going to drop this here as it includes some relevant information on memory storage. I'm feeling too lazy at the moment to extrapolate it or look up some scientific document... youtu.be/CUT6nET1yjo | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 16:21 | answer | added | sphennings | timeline score: 18 | |
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| Jun 28, 2017 at 16:10 | history | asked | JanT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |