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Season finale's been out a while, what opinion do you have that you'll defend like this? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That can indeed be how memories work (to a certain extent). There are many different types of memory loss. Retrograde amnesia, for example, will often involve retaining a lot of physical skills and lots of knowledge, but no real memories of the past.

The show is, of course, making up fake brain science, but the memory/skill aspect isn't the magic part.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

The hardest part to believe is that a technology could bypass the conditioned response from some of the traumas they inflict upon some innies, Gemma in particular.

Those get encoded in very deep and old parts of the brain, and can even impact the fascia of the body if it is sustained for long periods. An example of that is the armoring of a chronically stressed person that shows in posture and and limited range of motion.