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Erasing memories.

  • 07-11-2014 10:45pm
    #1
    RonanP77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭


    A drug is being developed that can target and erase specific memories. (as apposed to certain recreational drugs that will erase random chunks of it) It's worked on rats and mice so far in the lab. Would people really want any of their memories erased?

    There are probably a dozen things I've done over the last 30ish years that I really wish I could forget so I'd definitely be taking it.


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  • #2
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    I don't need it!


  • #3
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    I'd be erasing the memory of the one that got away. :(


  • #4
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    How the fcuk do they know they erased specific memories in mice and rats? Do they get to choose which memories, or is that part just as random?

    Sigh. So many questions


  • #5
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    RonanP77 wrote: »
    A drug is being developed that can target and erase specific memories. (as apposed to certain recreational drugs that will erase random chunks of it) It's worked on rats and mice so far in the lab. Would people really want any of their memories erased?

    There are probably a dozen things I've done over the last 30ish years that I really wish I could forget so I'd definitely be taking it.

    How would you know not to make the same mistakes again?


  • #6
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Can it just erase AH threads?


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  • #7
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    Can it just erase AH threads?


    http://adigaskell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/computer-says-no.jpg


  • #8
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    RonanP77 wrote: »
    A drug is being developed
    Is it called alcohol?


  • #9
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Perhaps the state can pass a law to ensure we must forget about any objections to Irish Water.


  • #10
    RonanP77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭RonanP77


    They teach the rats to associate certain sounds with pain. When the sound is played the rats freak out. They then give the rat the drug while making the sound. Afterwards the rat no longer associates the sound with pain.

    Well I'm married now so I'll never send a particular text to a particular girl while drunk. The mistake won't be made again so I think erasing the memory would certainly do me good. That's a simple example, there are lots of things that there's no chance of happening again even if the memory is erased.


  • #11
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    Manach wrote: »
    Perhaps the state can pass a law to ensure we must forget about any objections to Irish Water.

    Finally. FINALLY instead of the public sector being mentioned in every thread, or then the bailout, we've finally moved onto something else, Irish Water. Thank jesus for that.


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  • #12
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    RonanP77 wrote: »
    They teach the rats to associate certain sounds with pain. When the sound is played the rats freak out. They then give the rat the drug while making the sound. Afterwards the rat no longer associates the sound with pain.

    Sounds like rat-abuse.


  • #13
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Dartz


    RonanP77 wrote: »
    A drug is being developed that can target and erase specific memories. (as apposed to certain recreational drugs that will erase random chunks of it) It's worked on rats and mice so far in the lab. Would people really want any of their memories erased?

    There are probably a dozen things I've done over the last 30ish years that I really wish I could forget so I'd definitely be taking it.

    Brickinasockamol?
    Vodkadine?


  • #14
    Hijpo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,020 ✭✭✭Hijpo


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    How the fcuk do they know they erased specific memories in mice and rats? Do they get to choose which memories, or is that part just as random?

    Sigh. So many questions

    They make the mouse forget its a mouse, then gave it some cheese. It wasn't having any of that sh*t so clearly it wasn't a mouse anymore due to its memory of being mouse getting erased.


  • #15
    Adyx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    I'd happily erase the last 34 years.


  • #16
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Dartz wrote: »
    Brickinasockamol?
    Vodkadine?

    snookerballinasockamol ?


  • #17
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    How the fcuk do they know they erased specific memories in mice and rats? Do they get to choose which memories, or is that part just as random?

    Sigh. So many questions

    Exactly. You think I'll erase that time I said that stupid thing to that girl in the Palais and you wake up forgetting how to talk.


  • #18
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Them lab rats really drew the short straw being tested on compared to the free range rat who spends all their life riding.


  • #19
    Ronin247
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭Ronin247


    I would like to give it to everyone else that saw me do the stupid things I did or saw me shift a moose due to alcohol


  • #20
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Taking the date rape drug to the next level huh


  • #21
    bilston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,876 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    Sheep Lover wrote: »
    I'd be erasing the memory of the one that got away. :(

    Go and watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and be careful what you wish for.


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  • #22
    Cantremember
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Cantremember


    CHRIST I wish they'd just poison more mice and rats. This mucking around with their heads is going to end badly.


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