Hackers de la memoria humana: una peligrosa herramienta en desarrollo
Hackers de la memoria humana: una peligrosa herramienta en desarrollo
Viendo un documental de Netflix descubrí algo que me llamó poderosamente la atención,un avance científico: una herramienta capaz de modificar los recuerdos de la memoria humana.
Así como lo escucha, aunque el procedimiento esta en desarrollo pero ya es una realidad.
Por ejemplo, en Holanda ya se utiliza para curar fobias, como la aracnofobia, con un éxito garantizado.
We all have things in our past that we'd like to forget - bad break-ups, traumatic experiences, loss. No matter how hard we try, these memories can continue to haunt us, occasionally triggering conditions such as anxiety, phobias, or post-traumatic stress disorder. But scientists are now on the verge of being able to change that for good, with the discovery that our memories aren't as permanent as we once thought.
In fact, researchers have now figured out how to delete, change, and even implant memories - not just in animals, but in human subjects. And drugs that rewire our brains to forget the bad parts are already on the horizon, as PBS documentary Memory Hackers highlighted over the weekend.
If it all sounds a little science fiction, that's because it is - films such as Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind and Total Recall have long toyed with the idea of altering our memories. But thanks to the advances in neurological scanning technology over the past few decades, we're now closer than you might realise to making these technologies (or something similar) a reality.
Watch Wednesday, February 10 at 9pm and Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 11am on WMHT TV | Explore the secrets of the mind to discover how memories can be implanted, changed and even erased.
Explore secrets of the mind to discover how memories can be implanted, changed & even erased on @novapbs tonight at 9.