Posted on 10/07/2016 7:19:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The scenario sounds like a plot from a science fiction novel, but it’s not necessarily as implausible – at least in principle – as it might seem. For a start, memory researchers have known for decades that our recollections of the past are often inaccurate, and that sometimes we remember entire events that never happened at all. These false memories can occur spontaneously, but they are especially likely to occur when someone plants the seed of a false suggestion in our mind, a seed that grows into a more and more detailed recollection each time we think about it.
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Could planting ‘beneficial’ false memories be the next big thing for tackling obesity, or myriad other health complaints from fear of the dentist to depression? Even if such an intervention is scientifically plausible, there still remains the fundamental question of whether it could ever be ethically justifiable.
Certainly, it would be naïve to say that nobody would ever try it. In fact, even looking back several decades, we can find documented cases in which therapists claimed to have tackled their clients’ psychological troubles by manipulating their memories. Asking ourselves whether this kind of intervention is justifiable, then, is important: not only because we can conceive of a future in which false-memory interventions are on the menu, but also because in at least some rare cases, practitioners have been ordering from that menu for years.
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Even if the day never arrives when your family doctor can prescribe a course of false memories, reflecting on this ethical minefield may remind us that recollections are among our most precious assets. Maybe false memories can be just as precious.
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Robert Nash is a psychologist at Aston University, UK.
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Watch the TV series Dollhouse. People with ruined lives paid to allow use of their bodies and minds with programmed personalities to fit the task requested from clientele. At end of contract original personality returned to the person. With a twist.
Rutger Hauer’s greatest role.
Anyone who would even need to ask the question needs to have their licenses revoked.
Not in my opinion.
A ‘Memory Hacker’ Explains How to Plant False Memories in People’s Mind
All anyone has to do to research false memories is to research the McMartin Day School case that took place in the 1980’s to confirm their worst suspicions. The psychologists should have been jailed for what they did to the children.
When you hear me snap my fingers you will wake up and remember agreeing to pay me a thousand dollars to be hypnotised...
I saw that documentary.
How can anything good come out of something based on lies? Eventually the truth prevails. Might as well learn to cope with reality from the beginning rather than go into denial.
Such as the government sponsor paid classes in Aurora Colorado?
Which falls under a thing called Neuroscience.
So my answer is yes.
Such as the government sponsor paid classes in Aurora Colorado?
Which falls under a thing called Neuroscience.
So my answer is yes it’s possible.
It is unethical to use on the public for any reason.
No! Hell NO!! Then all anti-govey citizens will be sent to re-education facilities. Company employees will take more sensitivity training classes then actual work performed. And on, and on...
And it is already at work and working on almost half the looney tunes in this country.
The McMartins case was a prime example of this crap.
Meh. Our pubic schools implant false history and false morality in our kids’ heads every school day. That concerns me a bit more than this.
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