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When a head of a flatworm is cut off, not only does the head and brain grow back, but all the memories of the old brain are taken over.
That will be possible in the future.
That is a very interesting question! In theory, that would someday be possible in the near or far future. For this, however, one would first have to develop such a device that can record brainwaves, interpret correctly and assemble into images and sound. But what is needed before that would be the development of an interface between technology and organisms. Unfortunately, that will take some time.
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I'm glad to hear that you are interested in my question! I wanted to ask you what your opinion would be (if that's okay)? Let's see how others are on this topic. Because such an invention could change so much. Would you be that anyone could use such a device or against it?
Funny ideas that would come to my mind: You would not need to shoot any more holiday photos or the police could use the truth in the experience faster to find the culprit, …
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As memories of an event slowly change, they may be interesting but unreliable. This makes e.g. The extraction under torture so witless.
The videos, photos and sound recordings that are already stored everywhere, are of significantly higher quality.
The whole thing would of course have many advantages, but also some disadvantages. I do not know if the Netflix series 'Black Mirror' tells you something. It's about a similar topic in a row. Contact lenses that absorb everything.
As beautiful as it is and you can go back in time and dreams, so negative can affect relationships and contacts.
Technology and progress always has two sides:-)
First of all, the flatworm has no brain and therefore no memory. What he needs to live, he has installed in the simplest circuits in the organs concerned.
How memories are stored, one knows reasonably. And because I've dealt with it specifically and some even found out myself, I know at least some of the principle.
As for prognoses for the future, there are those that are theoretically possible but unimaginable, but also those that are theoretically conceivable, but based on concrete errors of reason and can never be realized in this form.
The thoughts are saved in a form in which the content to be stored serves as the address (storage location). Since the memory cells are formed in the brain only on a given occasion, the existence of the address serves equally as stored information. This is also found quickly when needed, because the required address for this access is also known with known information. The way you store, you also search and find.
This technique is also available on the computer. It is very effective, but it can only be used on a small scale. Because of the possibilities, a disproportionately large addressing space is required, but only a few addresses are really occupied. This is not a problem with the brain because these addresses have not been created, they do not need to be physically present. In the case of the computer, these are always available but not relevant memory locations, so to speak gaps. And you can't build such huge storage that you could fill in the gaps of a single thought.
If you save something, you have to use the same technique for retrieval. For disk storage, e.g. Without the right technique, you would only get zeros and ones without realizing the meaning behind them. Similarly it is with an unknown word of a foreign language. You only see the letters, but you do not know the meaning. It's the same with our brains. Only someone who stores something can read something out. For an outsider, there's no way to interpret someone else's stored thoughts because the memory process works out differently for each individual. Even if one could save thoughts, one could not read that. Even if experimentally simple either / or statements are successful, there's no way to successfully interpret a more complex information structure.
In this respect, it is unimaginable today under realistic conditions to interpret an image of a thought taken from the brain in conformity with the content.
