[extropy-chat] memory enhancer drug on the way

[Daniel Matthews]

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On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 03:01 am, extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 01:09:34 -0600
> From: Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>
> Subject: [extropy-chat] memory enhancer drug on the way
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> Maybe this is old news, I've forgotten:
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> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/07/1078594235091.html
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> A drug ... that enables people to improve their memory is to be tested on
> humans and could be on sale within five years.

As Steven Rose points out, this type of drug could be very dangerous.
Being able to forget is as an important part of learning, as being able to 
remember is. 

You could forcibly program a person with such a drug, or traumatise them so 
intensely that it was very hard for them to recover.

Are not most neurosis the result of learning inappropriate responses to 
stimuli?

Such is the nature of any powerful tool, it must be used wisely.

<dan at 3-e.net>

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