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2. True. I meant it more like: They propably wont even remember walking into a strange facility and then doze off, maybe they'll have fake memories of answering questions and solving arithmetic problems?

1. I did 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

Let's be honest: we've been trying to explain some questions from a technical point of view. Even if we succeed, the fact is that the explanation is not Kishiro's. Thus, I still consider that something like erasing memory is an inconsistency (except if someone is able to show me the answer is in the narrative and I was not able to catch it - but that doesn't seem to be the case here).

Consciousness may not be as simple as a machine's configuration, yet, for as far as we know, a brain works by creating new neural connections both to store memories and to develope new abilities (such as to ride a bike, for istance). We even have a slightly clear idea of what portion of the brain does what, so we can, for istance, disable higer brain functions by a lobotomy simply cutting away the foremost part of the brain mechanically. We also know that a precisely located brain damage can stop u from using distinct body parts. So, if we could "locate" the neural path of a distinct memory we could also cut that path an permanently destroy the memory.

But, still, that's just chat. Ido's brain is a chip that records his former brain's memories and abilities (which can make us presume that Salem's technology can "map" a brain already) A chip's electronic scheme and functions are well known and documented, an electronic memory can be erased, even roms, if u are ready to permanently lose some parts.

HumanRage wrote:amnesia people remembers how to talk, recognize objects, walk, scratch their belly and stuff...
they just lost their identity, which as the ego, is stored in a specific way by the brain, and if that storage is lost (accident, trauma, <technological device>) you get a blank person with no identity, but still knowing his math, history and whatever job he was doing before.

they still remember how to do their job, but they don't have any memory of doing so by the past.

amnesia.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... rl-15.html

selective partial amnesia, but kept her semantic memory while losing all tracks of her life...

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