MIT successfully implant false memories

[Godzilla2000]

I can see this used in a positive manner guys. Maybe we can use this process to implant in tweens' minds that Justin Bieber and those of his ilk are unappealing attention ****es.

 

[Doctor Evo]

Well, perhaps you can explain how the association of negative stimuli with a particular situation or environment is the equivalent of creating a false memory of something that happened in that environment? Because it seems to me that associations and actual memories are two separate and distinct things.

It is the mechanism of association that is important here. That's what you're missing. Ask yourself: HOW do mice build these associations?

Your critique of the experimental design, while superficially logical, ignores this key concept, and is therefore incomplete.

 

[bullets]

From the article, it seems the researchers didn't actually create false memories in the mice, they simply caused the mice to associate their memories of an environment with an electric shock. After that the mice quite sensibly showed fear when reintroduced into the place they associated with having their little bodies jolted with electricity. And since these are mice they're dealing with instead of people, there is no way of proving that they've been given false memories anyway. It's the equivalent of taking someone to a place, then showing them photos of that same place while hurting them. It forms an association in the mind and not real memories per se.

The only thing that study really proved is that life is hell for lab mice. Either some ass**** is shocking the **** out of them or they're being given cancer or Ebola or some other dread disease.

Precisely

 

[Shikamaru]

I read that as "MTV"...

I thought I was the only one.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I they able to implant a memory that Anne Hathaway was the first girl I made with? I don't care if it's fake, I just want the memory!

What if that happens, you pass by Anne and tell her: "Baby, I still cherish the moments we had together"?
And then she thinks you are either a stalker, or someone with issues?

 

[Q45]

Researchers at MIT have implanted false memories into the brains of mice, causing them to be fearful of an event that didn’t actually occur. This is a very important study that demonstrates just how unreliable memories can be, and goes a long way to explaining why humans regularly recall things that didn’t actually happen — such as alien abductions, or when giving eyewitness testimony that they believe to be true, but is actually a false memory.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...teach-us-how-human-brains-form-false-memories

or its a frightening study that indicates a new way those in power can better control the masses. Total Recall meets 1984. I'm digging a hole and moving underground.

 

[jaymes_e06]

Inceptioned!

Booooonnnnng!