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Your brain isn't so private anymore
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Power of Neurotech to Process Traumatic Memory
In your book, you talk about this specific way that neurotech can potentially be used to process traumatic memory. In a scanner, machine learning algorithms map the areas of the brain that that activates and then the person basically erases those memories through a process of neural feedback. It makes a lot of sense in the same way that when you are most symptomatic of intractable depression, you have a particular pattern of neurons firing in your brain. So chilling if you think about it in the pattern of so-called moral enhancement or the kind of Orwellian visions of reprogramming people's brains.
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