Thursday, October 30, 2008

Go toward the light

From Wired mag.
"A team of scientists from the United States and China announced last week that, for the first time, they had found a means of selectively and safely erasing memories in mice, using the signaling molecule αCaMKII. It's a big step forward, and one that will be of considerable interest to the military, which has devoted efforts to memory manipulation as a means of treating post-traumatic stress disorder. But some military research has moved in another direction entirely. "

Yes let's simply erase any memory of anything we don't like. And perhaps the memory of the Constitution and founding fathers. What better way to reprogram than to start with a clean slate.

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