Memory Question

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Right, I may have too much time to think at work but this came into my head last night and I don't know If i'm making it out to be more complicated than it is.

Imagine there is a pill you could take, 6 hours after you take it the past 6 hours of your memory are erased.

You take the pill before you head to work (let's assume you don't like your job in this situation and wish it passed as quickly as possible.) You then go to work normally and do your thing, time passes as it normally does, you do all the work you normally would.

6 hours later you return home and the pill kicks in and your memory of the past 6 hours is wiped. At this point it would appear to you as though only a second ago you were taking the pill, and time has passed almost instantly.

So, in this respect it would be worth taking the pill, since after taking it you would have been to work and apparently done it all instantly. But at the same time you would have had to have worked consciously and aware like normal up until the 6 hours was up, which in turn also makes it pointless.

Am I being dense here or does this confuse anyone else?
 
Wouldn't work, what if you had to do something at work that was important, like book a holiday, or get promoted, or call the boss a ****

Oh, and most of us work for more than 6 hours a day
 
It isn't instant though is it, it's still 6 hours later, you have 6 hours less to do what you want to that day and to boot you're knackered and can't even remember why.

You must have some really dodgy job to want to forget it every day - something to do with feet and old people?
 
A bit pointless tbh. Work is normally only rubbish when you are actually at work. Unless someone came in shooting, it's unlikely to be so difficult to put out of your mind after work that you'd need to wipe your memory.
 
What about the new hot secretary getting jiggy with you in the staff room. You'd be gutted if your pill then kicked in. Or, you're invited out for epic works drinks with the absolute possibility of getting laid, except, 6 hours later, you forget about the invite and go home!

However, if you were able to take another pill during the day which stopped the 1st from taking effect, just in case either of the above happen, then it's worth it! :)
 
I often think that the reason my short term memory is so useless is that I live a lot of my life in "auto pilot". So no need for one of these pills! :p
 
The problem is you would forget you had already been to work, so you'd probably end up heading back to work, thinking you still had to do your shift. Unless you left yourself a note telling yourself you've already been.

I also dont think I would like the feeling of not knowing what happened to me during those hours. It would be like suffering from blackouts.
 
If it was a pill to advance time 6 hours then it would be great :P

But to make you forget 6 hours?.. dont see why it would be worth it.
 
Lucero said:
Wouldn't work, what if you had to do something at work that was important, like book a holiday, or get promoted, or call the boss a ****

Oh, and most of us work for more than 6 hours a day
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The hours was just a random number and has nothing to do with the idea, nor does the idea of using it before work, it was just the easiest way I could put it.

But in your example you would handle the holiday/promotion/call from the boss like you would any other day, obviously you'd have to leave yourself a note but other than that there wouldn't be any difference.
 
I've been on medication that has as a side effect memory loss. Quite a bit like how you describe but you couldn't have worked while taking them. For me it was fairly scary to know I'd lost big bits of my memory of events. To be fair the nursing staff said I likely wouldn't want to remember what happen anyway.

I can't really see any plus to this unless your job is in some way disturbing or something.
 
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