@firstanointed: You could have mapped out the exact individual neurons responsible for associative learning in a simple brain with a whoopee cushion and a video of Rush Limbaugh? :P #neuroscience
This will never work on humans. When I turn on the TV most nights, an awful odor begins to permeate the room... and yet I'll continue to watch SyFy. #neuroscience
@Blue_Thark: I think they did control for the "giant horrible laser into ur brain" effect. The article mentions the flies only reacted with fear when they activated the right cells with the laser-guided ATP thingy, which implies they shot the laser at other cells without provoking a fear response. #neuroscience
@J_Frank_Parnell: No, that's usually self-inflicted. We don't want to create a "moral risk" situation encouraging people to watch Roland Emmerich's films. #neuroscience
@delusionsofgrandeur: Having never been either, I am supremely unqualified to have an opinion... but for sake of argument: is forgetting trauma really preferable to coming to grips with it?
That which we choose not to remember makes us stronger? #neuroscience
@Bigdamnhero: It seems like it's not so much altering the actual memory, rather it's just altering the physiological response. Like, it wouldn't make you forget that balloon trip when you were seven, but you won't puke on planes anymore. #neuroscience
@ThisDudeRufus: If I'm reading you right, it wouldn't get to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind levels of advancement or implementation. It would more or less help people to get over minor phobias like snakes or heights, based on traumatic experiences of the past.
I'd get behind that science. #neuroscience
@ThisDudeRufus: Interesting... but is that still desirable? We are the sum of everything that has happened to us.
Maybe this is a bit hyperbolic, but I'm reminded of the Twilight Zone ep, "Number 12 Looks Just Like You." While the Transformation has to do with physical looks, it's also a kind of "mental" plastic surgery, indicated by the scene with Lana and Val, right before she's Transformed:
Lana: "Valery... can't you feel anything?"
Val: "Well, of course silly! I feel good... I always feel good. Life is pretty, life is fun; I am all, and all is one!"
I know we're just talking about eliminating phobias, but still... how slippery is that slope? How much of your mind would you be willing to alter to be happy? #neuroscience
Yeah, I dunno if I'd want to wait it out as a brain in a jar while the Yithians float around with my body. Wait, I need a refresher on that story... where did the victim's consciousness go while the body was on a bender?
@B: I'm not sure if Fry was immune due to being stupid, or if it was that thing with doing the nasty-in-the-past-y, becoming his own grandfather, and producing within himself some odd genetic defect where he doesn't produce a certain set of brain waves (which is what made him immune to the giant brains)
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So THAT's why the same fly keeps landing on my Fruit Loops without realizing they're indigestible.
The flies effective "remembered" that something bad was associated with the smell, even though they had never experienced it themselves.
And are they sure the flies weren't just remembering the, um, giant horrible laser burning into their tiny brains?
Also, I hope I'm not the only one who thinks the fly in that photo looks amusingly "stitchpunk." #neuroscience
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That which we choose not to remember makes us stronger? #neuroscience
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I'd get behind that science. #neuroscience
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Maybe this is a bit hyperbolic, but I'm reminded of the Twilight Zone ep, "Number 12 Looks Just Like You." While the Transformation has to do with physical looks, it's also a kind of "mental" plastic surgery, indicated by the scene with Lana and Val, right before she's Transformed:
Lana: "Valery... can't you feel anything?"
Val: "Well, of course silly! I feel good... I always feel good. Life is pretty, life is fun; I am all, and all is one!"
I know we're just talking about eliminating phobias, but still... how slippery is that slope? How much of your mind would you be willing to alter to be happy? #neuroscience
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Into a Yithian body.
Normally they're pretty good at erasing the victim's memories afterward, but they failed pretty epically in that case.
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I'm not sure if Fry was immune due to being stupid, or if it was that thing with doing the nasty-in-the-past-y, becoming his own grandfather, and producing within himself some odd genetic defect where he doesn't produce a certain set of brain waves (which is what made him immune to the giant brains)
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer; "Bad Eggs"
Star Trek: The Next Generation; "Conspiracy"
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