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YoukaiSlayer posted...

You could figure out it's exact current effect on every other memory and part of the brain and address each of those parts individually while removing the memory. Nothing in the human body can't be measured, altered, or artificially created and inserted. We just don't have the tools to do a lot of it yet nor have we learned enough about how it works. Every doctor I talk to is so defeatist about the whole thing though. We can't do that, it can't be done. They act like these are ironclad rules just cause we haven't figured it out yet, even for stuff that is clearly possible like measuring the microbiome in the gut.

Trying to measure one memory's effect on every other memory in the brain would be like trying to measure how every molecule of water is affecting the placement and movement of every other molecule of water in the entire ocean. It's a giant interconnected web of synapses. Maybe with the greatest supercomputer in human history you could somehow track it but that still doesn't mean there is any way to isolate and alter it. And assuming it would not have a cascading effect on other memories, which you could not do. It's one thing to model something on a computer and another to actually dig open a human brain and stick an instrument in there. Measuring a gut biome is a child's fisher price surgery playset by comparison.
Dmess85 posted...

I think what TC is saying is that, "Is your brain like a hard driver where you can erase a memory, like a file, and keep the others intact. '

Yes. That's what I'm answering. And it's a hard no.

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