Link here to a report on scientists introducing false memories in mice.
Of course, erasing memories for sufferers of PTSD is progress, but science is Promethean, and it would be remiss not to note the anxieties set out in Blade Runner/ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. If personality is the sum of memories (bodily as well as intellectually, of course) then what could this mean for personality itself?
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