Can it help me remember the name of the person I was introduced to 90 seconds ago?
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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Some things are beyond the powers of science.
Need to consult a wizard.
No. I forgot those events for a reason, dammit!
This is all in mouse models. Mouse brains are fundamentally different than human brains in many ways.
“We know this because if we put you in an MRI [magnetic resonance imaging] machine and you recall something from your childhood, we see a pattern of activity, and if we ask you to imagine a future scenario — going home tonight and having dinner, for example — the same areas are activated,” he explains.
Ignoring that when asked to remember Big Bird at Disneyland, most people are able to "remember" it.
It's very likely they're creating false memories than restoring forgotten ones.
It's insanely difficult to tell real/fake memories apart, and I just don't think we can do that with mice. Like, we can barely do it with people we can talk to ...
I thought the same thing. They’re not restoring a memory, they’re recreating it, which has a high likelihood of inconsistency.
"Restoring" childhood memories is bullshit masquerading as science and a lot of people have been wrongfully imprisoned or worse because of it.
Sounds like amateur hour, the gangsta move is to use false memories to mind control the population. i.e. faith healers.
Yeh, let those fukkers live in fear muahahah
They were able to erase memories from a snail, maybe this time around they can retrieve the snail's childhood memories.