Brain Implants: Restoring Memory with a Microchip - 0 views
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ty frederickson on 08 May 13Hi ToKers, check this out. Do you sense any problems with this discovery?
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Yukiko Saito on 17 May 13This sounds pretty cool and so "high tech". But if all my memories are in a microchip, does that mean that I can erase those memories that I didn't really enjoy? Insert the microchip in my computer and easily monitor all my memories and erase the unwanted ones. That'll be insane and so "easy", meaning that memories kind of lose its meaning and its importance. When you think about it, schools will become unnecessary. I can probably extract all information needed for some particular exam to the microchip and insert it in my brain. Isn't that cheating though? and how will they limit the amount of information we put into our microchip?
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Ash Maher on 20 May 13If we can use "electronic devices" to manipulate how one remembers then does that not mean if we advance further in technology we will soon have the ability to control another human being? Or if anything could that mean we now potentially have the ability to implant another individuals memories or thoughts into another individual. Yeah maybe I'm thinking way to much down the lines of Terminator and Inception however judging by what the article is stating this no longer seems absurd. The possibility is there to do such actions if technology in this field advances, hey up here comes anew military weapon chaps! And to Yukiko's point I find her idea quite unnerving, the idea that by moving into such a direction could potentially open a door which would degrade the importance of human memory and its value is quite a depressing thought. Perhaps historically or even on personal levels what could this mean for us? Could we potentially store away memories during the years to which we cannot remember, like from birth to say the age of 4 and perhaps review them later on? Perhaps in doing so we may alter how our society thinks for better or worse. Interesting article I like it.