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Would it be ethical to implant false memories in therapy?
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| Robert Nash
Posted on 10/07/2016 7:19:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:19:33 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
All I know if that I was in Cambodia on Christmas day, 1968, having been ordered there by President Nixon. That memory is seared in my brain.
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:22:55 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
To: BenLurkin
They’re already trying to implant false memories - in government indoctrination center “history” classes.
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:23:03 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
To: BenLurkin
Hellary does nothing but plant false memories.
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:23:55 AM PDT
by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: BenLurkin
England just keeps getting nuttier.
Maybe it’s better the Muslims are taking it over.
(That’s sarcasm, the second line. Not the part about England getting nuttier).
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:24:15 AM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:24:47 AM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: BenLurkin
Would it be ethical to implant false memories in therapy? How else can you take a "Total Recall" vacation?
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:24:51 AM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(The Clinton's "LIST" ranks them among the worst serial killers in US history!)
To: BenLurkin
yeah, no I’ll pass.
It’s been a hard life. Lost pop at 14 and had to grow up early.
But he was a GREAT guy for those 14 years and I had a lot of great times with a BIG Italian family for many years.
I dont need “fake” memories to cope.
That’s what God is for.
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:24:54 AM PDT
by
dp0622
(IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: BenLurkin
BBC is funny. A press outlet, asking about the ethics of imparting false belief.
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:25:39 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: BenLurkin
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? I remember on November 4, 2008 when now forgotten Chicago politician Barack Obama lost the electoral vote 538-0.
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:27:03 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(If Muammar Gaddafi had donated to the Clinton Foundation he would still be alive and in power today.)
To: BenLurkin
Rachel in “Bladerunner.”
“Memories... you’re talking about memories.”
To: ClearCase_guy
Did you remember to keep your special hat?
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:30:03 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:32:12 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Removing memories associated with trauma is more feasible, simply destroy the neurons.
Extended therapy to acclimate you to what triggers the PTSD is more moral and better long term, but “let’s erase the bad / implant a good” is yet another reach for a quick fix.
Implanting fake memories mechanically would be immoral because of the likelihood of abuse, especially if done to alter people’s personalities and hide memory erasure.
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:33:06 AM PDT
by
tbw2
To: fwdude
Correct. I do have a funny story though. Once right before going to sleep my father told my mother to “watch out for the asparagus,” that night she had a dream that the garden was producing bushels of the stuff every day and even though she spent her days cooking piles of asparagus in a big dutch oven, she couldn’t keep up.
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:34:14 AM PDT
by
longfellowsmuse
(last of the living nomads)
To: Pearls Before Swine
“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain.”
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:34:22 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
To: BenLurkin
I wouldn’t mind having a few false memories involving Sean Young.
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:34:38 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: BenLurkin
Have read about a number of cases where counselors/child psychologists have created memories of child abuse via suggestiveness. Implanting memories, like everything else, can be used for good or bad. This is an area in which we should tread lightly.
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:35:03 AM PDT
by
Boomer One
( ToUsesn)
To: PLMerite
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:36:16 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: longfellowsmuse
Is there such a thing as too much asparagus?
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posted on
10/07/2016 7:42:56 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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