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But this, I really don't know, since I am far from being a brain scientist. As I understand it though, the memory works like "on" and "off" with electronic pulses, and a combination of "on's" creates an image (all of this much more complex, of course). Already today we can make out several areas that hold words for example. If you sedate only one small part, the patient will see man's best friend, he'll know what this four legged mammal is and what it likes, but the word "dog" just won't come out of his mouth. (That's what I've seen on TV at least.) So I assume with a technology advanced enough, you can locate (and delete) an entire memory-cluster. Cluster, because the smell of Alita would be located in a different location than the memory of touch, her voice, her looks and so on. However, this is just my assumtion, I have no real basis here. You might as well state the opposite and I can't really disagree.
On the other hand I just recently have read that this "we're using only 10% of our brains' capacity"-theory is nonsense and that we're in fact using about 80% or so of our brains, which means there are a lot processes that run hidden behind the obvious ones that produce the word "dog". Can one really identify all of those to completely erase this memory-cluster?
And on a third note, I once talked to a student of psychology that told me how the understanding of our brain-functions always mirrored the current state of technology. In the 19th century, hard work, arousal or whatever "build up one's pressure" and from time to time one needed to "blow off one's steam", otherwise he would "explode" and so on. Nowadays you first have to "boot up" in the morning, your head can "go blank" and so on. maybe in 100 years we'll work with bio-computers and will mirror our brain functions like a plant's.
Long story short, I admit to not know the answer
