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Paycheck-Style Memory Erasure: How Close Are We?

Posted by timothy on from the did-we-already-post-this dept.

Quirk writes "Scientific American takes a look at the movie Paycheck, based on Philip K. Dick's work of the same name. In the movie ...'a crack reverse engineer helps companies steal and improve upon the technology of their rivals, then has his memory of the time he spent working for them erased.' '...the main character gets several months' worth of his memories erased by having individual neurons zapped. Is that possible?'"

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  1. Re:Pay should be very high... by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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