Comments on: Scientists Erase Specific Memories in Mice http://blog.neonascent.net/archives/scientists-erase-specific-memories-in-mice/ exploring architecture, technology, art, and philosophy Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:37:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Josh http://blog.neonascent.net/archives/scientists-erase-specific-memories-in-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-21183 Josh Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:03:18 +0000 http://www.neonascent.net/muchmojo/wordpress/archives/240#comment-21183 I think I've heard the alternative ending, but will check it out. I think we already live in a world with selective memories - look at national mythologies; school history books. Old cliché of ignoring the past and being doomed to repeat it. Soldiers are scarred terribly by the horrific things they've seen and done. Would the world be better off if there was no one who could attest to how abhorrent war was? I think I’ve heard the alternative ending, but will check it out.

I think we already live in a world with selective memories – look at national mythologies; school history books.

Old cliché of ignoring the past and being doomed to repeat it. Soldiers are scarred terribly by the horrific things they’ve seen and done. Would the world be better off if there was no one who could attest to how abhorrent war was?

]]> By: Philip Steinke http://blog.neonascent.net/archives/scientists-erase-specific-memories-in-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-21177 Philip Steinke Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:15:54 +0000 http://www.neonascent.net/muchmojo/wordpress/archives/240#comment-21177 Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Look up the alternate ending script on the net. Is good. What's that song? I drink to get drunk, don't ask me why I smoke. Personally, I like the idea of considering a world with selective memories. Do you think reputation would be less important (since the person might have done something that has been erased), therefore trust would become more important, that you haven't erased the other person's memory after doing something horrible to them. What chu guys think? Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Look up the alternate ending script on the net. Is good.

What’s that song? I drink to get drunk, don’t ask me why I smoke.

Personally, I like the idea of considering a world with selective memories. Do you think reputation would be less important (since the person might have done something that has been erased), therefore trust would become more important, that you haven’t erased the other person’s memory after doing something horrible to them.

What chu guys think?

]]> By: Hayden http://blog.neonascent.net/archives/scientists-erase-specific-memories-in-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-20806 Hayden Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:28:10 +0000 http://www.neonascent.net/muchmojo/wordpress/archives/240#comment-20806 excellent. pursue to all ends. the more memory we can get rid of the better. the more history we need not know the better. if we can just forget that we ever became self-conscious...aww...if we could. keep up the work boys and girls, and everything inbetween. excellent. pursue to all ends. the more memory we can get rid of the better. the more history we need not know the better. if we can just forget that we ever became self-conscious…aww…if we could. keep up the work boys and girls, and everything inbetween.

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