How close is humanity to inventing the technology to erase their own memories (efficiently with no negative side-effects of course). The sad fact is that if such a thing were created humans would be wise to use it all the time.Selective amnesia would be one of the most powerful survival techniques ever created.
>>16870491Right... enjoy being stuck with a bunch of mysterious, free-floating anxieties and inhibitions that you can't connect to anything specific.
>>16870503I mean I already get ptsd style flashbacks to cringy things I did when I was younger and then immediately start thinking about killing myselfif I didnt remember the cringe, the depression causing reaction couldnt start
>>16870506>I already get ptsd style flashbacks to cringy things I did when I was younger and then immediately start thinking about killing myselfThat usually goes along with things like social anxiety. Suppose you couldn't even remember why social situations make you anxious. There would be nothing to look back at and reflect on objectively. How would that help you?
>>16870491>inventing the technology to erase their own memoriesWe already did that it was called lobotomy>(efficiently with no negative side-effects of course)This is near impossible to do for such a drastic change to the body
>>16870509are you retarded? if I dont know the cringe happened I wouldnt be able to flinch and react to thatif I could delete memories, id get the feeling im forgetting something, and then go on with my day?are you AI?
>>16870518Ok. I see I'm dealing with yet another beige (you will never be white) American subhuman mongoloid with zero self-awareness.
>>16870520nah youre definitely a self hating oreo because that is a lot of insane projection and illiteracy
>>16870491>How closeWe are absolutely close to understand that our memories = connections between the neurons, they are the architecture of our brain, not some state that can be overwritten. A person is formed by it's memories.
>>16870542The problem with your pop-sci take is that connection between neurons is precisely a state that can be overwritten.
>>16870491But... There were a lot of negative side effects in Eternal Sunshine. They just weren't biological. You had two people that were already broken, and kept making the same mistakes because they refused to let themselves live with the pain of knowing. Unpleasant memories serve an important purpose: they allow us to learn. Removing memories would be one of the most destructive actions I could imagine someone inflicting on themselves.
>>16870574What if I want to remove the memory of something I saw and traumatized me? Not some mistake I did?
>>16870503I have that anyway
