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The latest research shows memories "lost" to amnesia aren't gone forever; they're just not accessible
Mice certainly aren't men, but they can teach us a lot about memories. And in the latest experiments, mice are helping to resolve a long-simmering debate about what happens to "lost" memories. Are they wiped out permanently, or are they still there, but just somehow out of reach?
Researchers in the lab of Susumu Tonegawa at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT conducted a series of studies using the latest light-based brain tracking techniques to show that memories in certain forms of amnesia aren't erased, but remain intact and potentially retrievable. Their findings, published Thursday in the journal Science , are based on experiments in mice, but they could have real implications for humans, too.
http://time.com/3899789/lost-memories-retrieved/
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(Score: 1) by acp_sn on Friday May 29 2015, @07:30PM
in the future battery life will get better, storage costs will get cheaper, and eventually we will automatically record everything we experience at least from an audio and visual perspective
then just need a smart way to index
Now we no longer have to remember anything. Just ask our phone to play back the events.
Just like that meh episode of black mirror....
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday May 29 2015, @07:34PM
How do you ask your phone to play back the events if you don't remember that there are events to play back?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @07:49PM
"Phone, have I ever had a lesbian experience?"
"Yes, Sally."
"Play back those events please."
"Yes, Sally."
"I must have been so drunk that night."
"Yes, Sally."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @09:23PM
Yes, yes, go on...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @07:40PM
In the future, you can Auto-Tune the content of your conversation to sound smarter. [smbc-comics.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @08:00PM
that doesn't sound like a better life to me. it sounds like an Orwellian dystopia of constant surveillance.
#wish-i-was-actually-in-1984
(Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Saturday May 30 2015, @02:10AM
Ah, yes. That video that exonerates you? It's already missing from cop's dash cam footage, and soon from their pocket cams too.
As the technological complexity of the earth increases Hackers will wield the most power. Soon, if not already, some technology will be too dense for the Hacker, and the Cyberneticist will take their place, followed closely by their machine intelligences.
For is it not written in the ancient texts, "The geek shall inherit the Earth"? If not now then it will later when some future historical revisionist wills it so.
(Score: 1, Funny) by KGIII on Saturday May 30 2015, @02:41AM
I would take the risks and accept a brain implant that connects my brain to the internet - right now... I would even accept a wireless antenna poking out of my head and an ethernet cable in my neck. Hell yeah. Viruses worry me if this happens but the brain is better than a computer so I should be able to remove it. If not I am going to uninstall KGIII and go for something open source.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."