memory implants

[Angilion]

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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

At the atomic level, the distinction between matter and energy is, well, less distinct Concepts of matter such as "aren't actually connected in any structural sense" don't really apply on that scale. Subatomic particles are connected to form atoms, just not in a material way. They're connected by forces, not by physical connections. I'm probably not doing a good job of explaining this because my understanding of it is only a vague groping around the edges of the subject.

 

[Minusorange]

At the atomic level, the distinction between matter and energy is, well, less distinct Concepts of matter such as "aren't actually connected in any structural sense" don't really apply on that scale. Subatomic particles are connected to form atoms, just not in a material way. They're connected by forces, not by physical connections. I'm probably not doing a good job of explaining this because my understanding of it is only a vague groping around the edges of the subject.

It's not that I don't understand it, I do, it puzzles me because the concept is a paradox, we're solid at one level, but composed of billions of separate little objects all orbiting each other at the quantum level, trying to actually visualise it is not easy

 

[bainbridge]

It's my understanding that each time we recall a memory it changes slightly, so something we fondly remember from years ago might be quite different to what actually happened.

I wonder if implanted memories would be subject to this?

 

[Orionaut]

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.

This is why we are programmed to forget dreams.

Our brains would otherwise find dream experiences indistinguishable from real life ones and life would become impossibly confusing.

Unfortunately, the "Memory wipe" mechanism is not 100% reliable. For example, I have a number of very vivid memories but for the life of me I do not really know whether they are memories of actual experiences or just dreams that I have failed to wipe properly.

The clue is context, there are no memories leading up to these events and no memories of what happened afterwards. But even so I do wonder sometimes.

(I am sure I am not the only person to experience this, though I accept that it might be rare, if only because I experience other memory quirks too. For instance, I can clearly remember events that must have happened before I was 2 years old. even before I could talk coherently and my understanding is that most people cannot remember events from that early in their lives. I wonder if anybody has made a serious study about the consequences of remembered dreams? I can certainly confirm that a strong ability to remember and re-experience past events is not always helpful! )

 

[Malevolence]

+4 or +5?
Make sure you jump to a clone without them before going into a big group battle if you’re wearing +5s.

Have let my sub expire, due to EVE burnout but had +5s plugged in my training clone. Currently though, I think my main is still sat in his EWAR clone somewhere in low-sec as a few of us were harassing mission and event runners for ***** and giggles..

 

[linktoinsanity]

for every foot away from an abject theres a nanosecond delay add in the neurological delay and well....we never see the present

Essentially whenever Microsoft Fanboys tell everyone else that the latest iteration of Windows (aka Windows Vista, Windows 8) is God's (aka MS) gift to the world and that we're living in the past, the correction is that they are too eh?

This thread seems to have become deep quickly (not my post).

 

[Kiyoshi]

Rather than buying memories, I'd much prefer some memory I can write my own memories to so I don't forget them. My wife already has that jokes apart, I think that would a lot more appealing to me personally.

 

[Combat Fighter]

Get your arse to Mars. . .