Scary Science

[wolven7]

"Memory Molecule" Found. Which is scary as hell, and also quite promising for things like Alzheimers cures.

Synthetic Molecule Causes Cancer Cells to Self Destruct. Heheheh. "Executioner Enzyme."

Thesis work slowly combines into itself, and builds. I'm cautiously optimistic.

Ta.

Comments

[jaerven.livejournal.com]

Wow - to both cases. While I can see the chance of abuse for both techniques, the possible benefits sound very good. I was saying to a colleague today that it would be nice to delete certain memories. :)

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I like all of mine. They're part of the melange that makes me who I am, you know?

[jaerven.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean and I'll get to like those I was talking about in a while, I guess, but currently I don't have the distance and maturity to think that way.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

It takes time and effort, if you want it to happen. I don't say everyone has to like themselves, but I do.

I can't change what happened in the past, because my not remembering it doesn't make it have not happened-- I'd have to erase the memory from th uniiverse. All I can change is what I become.

[jaerven.livejournal.com]

Quite a few of the things you say, especially the theory that by having an effect at the quantum level there is constant interaction with the world, remind me of Zen, especially of the way I few of the points I struggled with have been explained to me a while ago. Have you arrived at that point starting from Zen?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I can say that zen is most certainly part of the mixture, but it was not the starting point. Humanistic psychology was the first conscious starting point, I believe.

Healing memories

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

... is another idea about what the reverend mother does.

I can give an outline, but she's far more proficient than I.

Premise one is that you can change your reaction to a current stimulus to one that you want. If you know you don't like rum raisin but end up having it every time aunt Denyse brings it over, you can change to say you don't want it.

Premise two is that emotions aren't inherent to the stimulus. Since person one goes, "rum raisin, yay!" and person two goes, "rum raisin, dammit!", the external source of emotion, rum raisin, isn't nearly as important as the reaction.

Premise three is that emotional reactions can change. I don't have any opinion about rum raisin before I experience it. If I were to have a bowl hand-fed me by Catherine Zeta-Jones, I would probably have positive memories. If I were to have a bowl hand-fed me by Michael Douglas, notsomuch.

The synthesis of these ideas is the proposal that one can re-experience these events and put what you want into them such that you don't experience emotional trauma.

I don't yet have a theory for how to change the past for others, but you can change your experience of the past such that you get what you want out of it. And I'm sure there's a possible extrapolation there about changing the past because of the importance of frame of reference and conscious experience.

Re: Healing memories

[wolven.livejournal.com]

My only difference there is not forgetting the past association. Always recognising the "I didn't used to like X." The way you've modeled it, it sounds like you're meant to change your conception, from the beginning to now. If I've missed that, my apologies.