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"The immediate problem with our meat brains is that they have no back-up. We can lose the most precious information we have from one bump on the head or stroke. You want a mind system with back-up that can access other databases."
- Bart Kosko
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| Brain Erasure | ||
| Deleting selected knowledge from the brain using electrical impulses. |
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And what if you have already loaded your brain up to its maximum capacity? You might want to erase some of that material.
Do you yearn to learn? But are you repelled by the dreary months and years of study?
Electro-Education is the answer! Study, classrooms, are now obsolete!
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| "... The scanner can erase this new-found knowledge from the brain, by using a neutralizing electronic impulse. Then the student can learn entirely new subjects." |
| Technovelgy from The Knowledge Machine,
by Edmond Hamilton. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1948 Additional resources -
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Compare to erased memories from Philip K. Dick's 1966 story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.
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'If the biological robots were not living creatures, they were certainly very good imitations.'
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