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Not an April Fool Joke - Artificial Hippocampus

Posted by IsoM on March 12, 2003, at 20:23:19

I figured it had to be an early April fool's joke but a bit more checking bears out its veracity. All I can say is - weird!

"World's first brain prosthesis revealed"
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993488

And the home page of the team leader that further verifies the story:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/biomed/faculty/berger.html

 

Re: Not an April Fool Joke - Artificial Hippocampus

Posted by Bittersweet on March 13, 2003, at 4:09:13

In reply to Not an April Fool Joke - Artificial Hippocampus, posted by IsoM on March 12, 2003, at 20:23:19

that made me go "hmmm" :o)
The ethical side they speak of is very interesting; What if you couldn't forget something you wanted to?

My short term memory seems to be suffering lately, but I'd rather have it this way than to be forced to remember stuff I'd rather not...

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> I figured it had to be an early April fool's joke but a bit more checking bears out its veracity. All I can say is - weird!
>
> "World's first brain prosthesis revealed"
> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993488
>
> And the home page of the team leader that further verifies the story:
> http://www.usc.edu/dept/biomed/faculty/berger.html

 

Re: Not an April Fool Joke - Artificial Hippocampu ยป IsoM

Posted by Ilene on March 13, 2003, at 23:55:16

In reply to Not an April Fool Joke - Artificial Hippocampus, posted by IsoM on March 12, 2003, at 20:23:19

> I figured it had to be an early April fool's joke but a bit more checking bears out its veracity. All I can say is - weird!
>
> "World's first brain prosthesis revealed"
> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993488
>
> And the home page of the team leader that further verifies the story:
> http://www.usc.edu/dept/biomed/faculty/berger.html

Could you back up your hippocampus on to a zip disk before you had ect, and then re-install it?

Would it be cheating to borrow someone's hippocampus chip before you took a test?

Would your memories be erased if you had an mri? Or would they just be really, really strange?

Is that how they did it in Bladerunner?

Would you need to keep a diary?

Instead of sending a postcard, could you send a memory card?

When someone says, "It was nothing, forget it," could you do it?

Would a memento be a chip you wore around your neck?

Could the cops get a search warrant for your hippocampus chip?

Does this give a whole new meaning to "recovered memory"?

Goodnight. Pleasant dreams, and think of me.

--I.


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