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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. accelerated learning eigenpoll by AeiwiMaster · · Score: 0, Troll

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  2. Just what we need by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, just what we need, another low-grade "sci-fi writer" trying to come up with self-important stories that he claims have twists that his humoring daughter likes. Go back to posting at Slashdot.

    1. Re:Just what we need by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      wtf are you doing posting to slashdot? not only are you capable of thinking, you have a proven history of doing so in an extended and egregious fasion. begone lest you be smitten with tubgirl pics.