memory implants

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yeh so when i hear people talking about how much money they have spent on say a two weeks holiday i cant help but think about total recall and having memory implants because isnt that really what you are paying for ,a brief physical experiance and then just memorys ,maybe just hooking ourselves up to our pc and putting a memory in there wouldnt be a bad idea.
isnt everything in our lives in the past and only there through memory ,even the present has a time delay so dosnt really exist in our lives does it (sorry lidl pinotage makes me think like this)
 
The memory comes is an added bonus. I think the actual experience is what you do things for. The feeling of being in the moment, not taking away memories from it.
 
I think they did a documentary about memory implants a while back, it was based on a case study by Philip K Dick, it's scary stuff when they go wrong
 
I think this is probably one of the less useful things from sci-fi to attempt in the real world. Way behind giant walking robots piloted by Japanese schoolgirls, anyhow.
 
I’ve signed myself up for one of these - a new spy thriller called ‘blue sky on mars’. Can’t wait!
Pssst. Don't trust the girl who says she's your wife. At the very least don't agree to have all your money in a shared bank account.

I've said too much...
 
for every foot away from an abject theres a nanosecond delay add in the neurological delay and well....we never see the present

Wow you are on another plane of intelligence man, and you are right too. Things do have a delay, the biggest delay you can actually observe is by looking at the stars because the photons are so old.
 
My experience has sadly been negative.
If RedTube (my frame of reference) is indicative of all boob jobs - well, firstly they look horrific. I'm not sure what kind of state of mind you'd need to have to go in for it, but the end result is not attractive where I'm sitting. Then there's the loss of feeling, the inevitable leaks and cancer fears...

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Reality is all subjective, for instance your reality is different to the reality of a colour blind person, or a person who has never been able to see at all

Also if you believe in fate/pre destination then your entire life is an implant and you are just a passenger under the illusion of making choices when those choices were already made before you even existed

And then there's the possibility that reality is actually a simulation, which I'd liken to plugging into a game where an entire lifetime in human years is merely a few hours in the non simulation

Unfortunately most of these questions will never get answered until we die, it's probably why not many people like discussing such deep philosophical concepts because it's enough to make a person mad if they constantly try to find answers they'll never find.

The thing that puzzles me most though is that we're solid objects on the macro level but delve into the quantum realm and we're composed of billions of these https://www.quora.com/What-does-an-atom-look-like-2 that aren't actually connected in any structural sense and if you split just 1 of these fuzzy quantum clouds it's enough to destroy an entire city
 
I'd like to post a sage piece of advice from the film, but it contains a Naughty Magic Word so I can't.

False memories are already a problem. If they could be even more easily induced with more control of details they would be a huge problem. Nobody would be able to rely on their own mind at all. The whole point of such a thing would be that it would be indistinguishable from reality. Even if it was possible to detect an implanted memory that wouldn't be good enough because implanted memories would inevitably rewrite other memories so there would be false memories in addition to the implanted ones.

You're right about the importance of memory and that's why implanted memories would be a problem.
 
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