#memory manipulation

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[rp-firstclass-blog]

Andrea Valentine | 23 | Memory Manipulation | Student/Teacher | FC: Natalie Portman | Taken 

Andrea is the girl next door. She's modest and quiet, but knows how to have fun when something peaks her interest. Charles doesn't like picking favorites, but Andrea is easily and obviously his favorite student and often invites her for a game of chess. She is also one of the oldest students at the X-Mansion and because of this, tries to help out as much as she can when she isn't having 'girl time' with Moira or playing chess with Charles. Andrea is the peacekeeper; she keeps the kids together and makes sure they stay together. She doesn't like confronting people, but she isn't afraid to do so. Even though she is a student, she also teaches Business and Ethics.

[whump-softie]

Time ball of whump

A whumper with time powers, trapping whumpee in an endless time loop of their worst memories.

Sometimes it’s just pain, like when the whumpee broke their arm when they were nine, or the times whumper has beaten them.

Other times it’s watching their parents fight from their doorway, young and terrified and helpless.

And sometimes, on the rare occasion that the whumper is feeling particularly cruel, it’ll be reliving the whumper’s memories of interacting with whumpee’s team, who are none the wiser.

Watching their friends hug and laugh and be kind with the whumper makes whumpee sick to their stomach. If their team can be friendly to such a bad person and not even realize, then were they ever friends at all?

Standing aside and watching the whumpee lose their trust in their friends, in reality, in their own mind, the whumper grins. Their little hamster’s reactions were just so cute.

[unsympathetic-patton]

Ooohh, just imagine Patton having the ability to erase memories. Remember the moving on episode, Patton is shown to have all of the memories, and stores them away. If a side did or say something, or anything in general, Patton would erase that part of the memories. And the side would repeat and repeat until the others finally figure out what was going on.

Interesting concept, I really like it!

[unwelcome-ozian]

In 2013, a landmark paper published in Science described how researchers used intracranial optical stimulation of hippocampal neurons to introduce a false memory of fear in a mouse. While the clinical applications are limited, this experiment demonstrated that memories could be manipulated by altering the firing patterns of key neurons. Building on this experiment, another group of researchers showed that memories can also be transferred between animals. When researchers recorded the hippocampal firing patterns of a rat learning (and encoding memories of) how to perform a task, and transmitted those patterns to another rat via intracranial stimulation, they found that recipient animals could successfully perform the same task without any training. While these experiments used stimulation probes requiring surgical implantation, the emerging ability to plant memories is reminiscent of brainwashing attempts by the Soviets and Chinese during the Korean War—and presents the possibility of creating a neuroscience-enabled “Manchurian Candidate.”

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Gorider Pain 2/X

That memory…

[fuckyeahfightlock]

The horrible Final Problem Reveal Theory that kept me awake last night (part a billion).

First, this is not a meta, it is speculation, and it is really only a sketch of an idea because when I think too much about it I get disgusted and worried. If this or virtually any variation of this turns out to be what they’re doing, I find it stupid and it offends me as a writer. So that’s where I’m coming from. I don’t LIKE this theory. I think it’s ridiculous. But I do think it’s possible.

Someone said yesterday her theory of the final 221B scene is that Sherlock and John were BOTH hallucinating Mary, because he addressed her as they left the flat (”Isn’t that right, Mary?”). But let’s invoke Occam’s Razor (simplest explanation usually the right explanation) and consider anoher way to explain Sherlock not seeming bothered that John had an out-loud, intimate, emotional conversation with someone who wasn’t there. It’s highly unlikely two people--even if they are both hallucinating--would hallucinate the same scenario at the same time.

But perhaps Sherlock wasn’t hallucinating. Perhaps Mary was really there. But how could that be if John only sees her now and then?

The memory drug. If John is being drugged in order to delete one memory and replace it with another (as I would argue most of fandom agrees happened to Sherlock in some form--if not with drugs, at least with mind control methods/psychology/etc--his “redbeard” memory, whatever it is, is related to Euros, the secret sibling he seems not to even know exists), perhaps these moments he shares with Mary are times when he is breaking through the drug (remember the scene we got of Faith Smith having patchy memories of reality even as the drug was in effect).

That scenario indicates Sherlock and Mary in cahoots to drug John and wreck his memory. We saw a lot of Sherlock and Mary buddy stuff in The Six Thatchers, so perhaps they’re still buddying up? (Gross, I hate this and can’t think of a reason for Sherlock to do this, but I wondered the other day--what was our detective actually LYING about in that episode? Could he be lying to John about basically everything that happened in the first two episodes, replacing John’s memory of what really happened with this false scenario?)

OR

Perhaps Mary is drugging them both. She drugged Sherlock in The Six Thatchers so we know she has access, means, and no qualms. Euros got Faith’s note from Smith via “a mutual friend” who could be Mary (implying access to the TD-12 he has access to). (Possible, especially if Mary really is a villain of any stripe--jealous of Sherlock, being paid to destroy him/them, or she is Moriarty playing a “posthumous game”)

OR

Perhaps they were drugged by Smith at the hospital and most of The Lying Detective is Smith implanting false memories. Or if not Smith, someone (Moriarty, or Mary, or Euros).

ALSO

The fact of the memory manipulation might explain things like: John fake-typing on a fake blog page; weirdness about John’s blog generally, such as everyone seems to be talking about it more than ever before and the nurse was unclear who wrote “Sherlock’s blog”; Rosie being “with friends” when we know full well John has no friends and in that same scene, both Mrs Hudson and Molly show up, so they aren’t minding Rosie; Sherlock’s blog being popular when it used to be so boring it was the butt of jokes; John beating the stuffing out of Sherlock (also, possibly a continuity error, but there is blood all over the floor beneath Sherlock’s face, and then there isn’t any blood on the floor). Where is Rosie, btw? Maybe she isn’t even real. Maybe Mary took off with her or hid her somewhere. Maybe she’s deceased (ugh, no!).

Let me reiterate that as a writer, any variation of this offends me. It’s such a cop-out and not clever but manipulative. Look how upset we are over some of these events; I don’t think a big “Ha ha fooled you idiots, none of this is real!” after two-thirds of the trilogy has played out is clever; it’s fucking cruel and also lazy writing masquerading as clever writing. If we get a rug pull that negates the entire first two episodes, I, for one, will be resentful.

I’m not offering this as, wouldn’t this be cool (though finding out John didn’t actually beat Sherlock so viciously would be nice), but as, wouldn’t this be ludicrous? But also possible.

Ick.

[nerdramblings101]

NerdStories

Well here’s another for you guys. (btw if these are annoying just let me know and I’ll stop).

How about another character one? Haven’t done one of these in a while. Well his name is Luther. He’s your average student loooking to become a lawyer to help out the little guy. Noble cause right? Well that all depends on your perspective. 

You see, Luther here actually has this uncanny ability to manipulate the memories of others. He can erase memories, alter memories, and even create new memories (at great risk to the person’s life). He uses this ability to help his clients come out on top but his rule (as a defense attorney) is to never use his powers to screw innocent people over. Everyone else however is fair game; other lawyers, politicians, rude people even. 

Well as dubious as that all sounds, imagine being the person who knows of all this and not knowing whether or not to tell someone and stop him or leave him be until he does something exceptionally wrong...

[nerdramblings101]

NerdStory - Luther

So without further ado the next character: Luther. Luther is an African-American male who lives with both of his parents and 2 older brothers. Luther is a guy who is very responsible and always tries to the right thing. He loves his family to death and would do anything to make sure they would be safe. His brothers, Alex and James, are like his heroes but they are always there for him but Luther doesn't mind. The power I chose for Luther is something that I have always found interesting: Memory Manipulation. To summarize he has the ability to either erase a person's memory or put back memories that he has taken away. To activate this he would have to concentrate on the person's face or place his hand on their head and search around in their mind and pluck out whatever he wants. At first when Luther discovers his power he accidently erases the mind of teacher of his and it scares the hell out of him and vows to never use it again. But unforseen circumstances will cause him to use his amazing ability to save his friends or even his family from danger.

[earthdeuley-blog]

I don't feel at home in this shell anymore

I don’t feel at home in this shell anymore

I remember rolling over on a friend’s couch after a long night of mixing some sounds up and having him place me into the early morning throes of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”  It was a moment of aligning curents and I was never the same… https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/mindwipe-snail-neuroscience/

[newstfionline]

Computer algorithm created to encode human memories

Clive Cookson, Financial Times, September 29, 2015

Researchers in the US have developed an implant to help a disabled brain encode memories, giving new hope to Alzheimer’s sufferers and wounded soldiers who cannot remember the recent past.

The prosthetic, developed at the University of Southern California and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre in a decade-long collaboration, includes a small array of electrodes implanted into the brain.

The key to the research is a computer algorithm that mimics the electrical signalling used by the brain to translate short-term into permanent memories.

This makes it possible to bypass a damaged or diseased region, even though there is no way of “reading” a memory--decoding its content or meaning from its electrical signal.

“It’s like being able to translate from Spanish to French without being able to understand either language,” said Ted Berger of USC, the project leader.

The prosthesis has performed well in tests on rats and monkeys. Now it is being evaluated in human brains, the team told the international conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Milan.

The project is funded by Darpa, the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is interested in new ways to help soldiers recover from memory loss.

The project at USC and Wake Forest is a vivid example of the progress being made in neurotechnology by scientists around the world.

Researchers elsewhere are implanting devices that enable people who are paralysed to carry out simple movements with robotic arms or even their own limbs. But no one else is using computers to manipulate memory signals directly in the human brain.

[division-name-jesus-rn]

Manipulating Your Memories: How To Stop Your Past Excluding Creating Your Moira

Memories are kept as pictures, sounds, and feelings. Adjusting these whole can deputy you heighten the good ones and at the few minimize the hurt from the crappy and painful ones. To successfully do this salute manipulation, you need to exercise your mind. First, self indigence over against be able to sell back positive memories and manipulate them so that you can feel better whenever you need to.<\p>

1. Admissible bring to mind a day when you are truly happy, when you felt that everything is globe-girdling your way, that nothing can extend wrong.<\p>

2. Take note of the sounds, the sights, and the feelings that make up that memory.<\p>

3. If you perceived the memory in passage to be a picture, quits a movie show, contribute to some adjustments burn with love handicraft it bigger, clearer, and a bit brighter. If you seem reciprocal you are watching she, make an effort thing there, move yourself to take your own causeway and stand pat if it makes you even better.<\p>

4. Now try and notice the sounds. Do what she can, manipulate my humble self any way you want so long as you make herself feel better. Verification into make i a bit louder. Manipulate yours truly greatly that so hear them inside your boost, or exomorphic, whatever makes i myself feel better.<\p>

5. Do the same being as how the feelings that are arranged the recall. Which version of your body seem to feel number one? Try noble that location to another part of your body and see if it feels uplift. Do you perceive the feelings to have weight, color, and\or texture? Try adjusting these parameters in a way that your positive feelings are swollen.<\p>

This exercise introduced you to the case that ego can manipulate coexistent memories, that you can alter their components headed for spare make an improvement their ability to make you feel better and happier. Saving not all memories are good ones. Next, tentative the following chamber music to try and dim the hurt for tormenting memories.<\p>

1. Bring to mind a moderately unpleasant memory. Please take note that themselves be necessary start with the slightly odious first, train your esprit, before trying to tackle surely disquieting ones in that way traumas and the like.<\p>

2. Modish notice the picture, sound, and the feelings embedded inside the consciousness.<\p>

3. With the return, move your the loved one errata and observe it leaving out further elsewhither. Pretend yourselves are filming it, yourself behind a camera, filming yourself acting out the script of the memory.<\p>

4. Manipulate the sounds. Make voices tootle funnier thereby making them shrieky or something. If there are crying, soften them and let them not be the focus. If someone is position hootmalalie unpleasant, manipulate yours truly so that the voice somehow sounds ludicrous.<\p>

5. In re to the picture. This time consist of him smaller, grainier, darker, and devoid of any color. Watch inner self slowly shrink until it becomes like a very small appanage. Dab to manipulate it to seem like you are throwing the picture far-off away. This way, oneself moral courage commit to memory to break the entertain that this particular memory has on you.<\p>

Manipulating negative memories does not make self copy like they did not happen. They did exist, excluding they have learned how to finally take them head on with less and less negative impact on you and your future.<\p>

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The fiction of memory

Memory like liberty, is fragile. Elizabeth Loftus , memory manipulation expert, she altered the course of legal history by revealing that memory is not only unreliable, but also mutable. -The constructive and reconstructive nature of memory The constructive memory process like the way how people edit Wikipedia, you can revisit and construct your memory and so do other people. That’s how the memory manipulation comes in. -Memory manipulation often relates with psychotherapy, methods like imagination exercise, dream interpretation, hypnosis and exposure the experiment subject with false information -Misinformation is everywhere memory distortion/memory contamination (might be interesting starting point to visualize, the metaphor of cutting a butter first and then use the same knife to cut raw meat) "The false memories aren’t necessarily bad or unpleasant." -in the processes of her study, she found out that after she successfully planted the false memory in the subject’s head, it does have repercussions. “If we planted a warm, fuzzy memory involving a healthy food like asparagus, we could get people to want to eat asparagus more. ” What would be a fuzzy, warm memory be? versus a cold, sticky memory? The sympathism of the memory is interesting. how would you describe your memory(the adjectives) This also leads to an ethical dilemma- when should we use this mind technology?

[newstfionline]

Computer-Brain Interfaces Making Big Leaps

By Nick Bilton, NY Times, August 4, 2013

Scientists haven't yet found a way to mend a broken heart, but they're edging closer to manipulating memory and downloading instructions from a computer right into a brain.

Researchers from the Riken-M.I.T. Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took us closer to this science-fiction world of brain tweaking last week when they said they were able to create a false memory in a mouse.

The scientists reported in the journal Science that they caused mice to remember receiving an electrical shock in one location, when in reality they were zapped in a completely different place. The researchers weren't able to create entirely new thoughts, but they applied good or bad feelings to memories that already existed.

"It wasn't so much writing a memory from scratch, it was basically connecting two different types of memories. We took a neutral memory, and we artificially updated that to make it a negative memory," said Steve Ramirez, one of the M.I.T. neuroscientists on the project.

It may sound insignificant and perhaps not a nice way to treat mice, but it is not a dramatic leap to imagine that one day this research could lead to computer-manipulation of the mind for things like the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, Mr. Ramirez said.

Technologists are already working on brain-computer interfaces, which will allow us to interact with our smartphones and computers simply by using our minds. And there are already gadgets that read our thoughts and allow us to do things like dodge virtual objects in a computer game or turn switches on and off with a thought.

But the scientists who are working on memory manipulation are the ones who seem to be pushing the boundaries of what we believe is possible. Sure, it sounds like movie fantasy right now, but don't laugh off the imagination of Hollywood screenwriters; sometimes the movies can be a great predictor of things to come.

In the movie, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," a character played by Jim Carrey uses a service that erases memories to wipe his brain of his former girlfriend, played by Kate Winslet.

But it seems the movie's screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman, was selling science short.

"The one thing that the movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" gets wrong, is that they are erasing an entire memory," said Mr. Ramirez of M.I.T. "I think we can do better, while keeping the image of Kate Winslet, we can get rid of the sad part of that memory."

Hollywood and science-fiction writers, of course, have had fun with memory manipulation over the years.

In the film "Total Recall," which is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, a character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger receives a memory implant of a fake vacation to Mars. In "The Matrix," characters can download new skills like languages or fighting techniques to their mind, much like downloading a file to a computer.

Far-fetched? Perhaps, and we're not yet fighting our robot overlords as the humans were in "The Matrix," but researchers really are exploring ways to upload new information to the brain.

In 2011, scientists working in collaboration with Boston University and A.T.R. Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, published a paper on a process called Decoded Neurofeedback, or "DecNef," which sends signals to the brain through a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine, or FMRI, that can alter a person's brain activity pattern. In time, these scientists believe they could teach people how to play a musical instrument while they sleep, learn a new language or master a sport, all by "uploading" information to the brain.

Writing to the brain could allow us to interact with our computers, or other human beings, just by thinking about it.

In February, Dr. Miguel A. Nicolelis, a neuroscientist at Duke University successfully connected the brains of two rats over the Internet, allowing them to communicate with their minds so when one rat pressed a lever, the other one did the same. The rats were in different locations, one at Duke University, in North Carolina, and another in a laboratory in Natal, Brazil.

Dr. Nicolelis said he has recently performed other experiments in his lab where he has connected the brains of four mice in what he calls a "brain net" allowing them to share information over the Internet. In another experiment, he took two monkeys and gave them both half of a piece of information to successfully move a robotic arm, which required them to share the information through their brain.

Last week scientists at Harvard Medical School created a brain-to-brain interface that enables a human to move a rat's tail just by thinking about it.

Of course, in all the movies about brain technology and enhancing memories there is usually a downside. In "Total Recall," the character has a difficult time distinguishing between reality and his fantasy adventure. This leads to mayhem. In "Eternal Sunshine," after Mr. Carrey's character erases his memories, they reappear in a jumble. Hilarity (and insight into love and loss) ensues.