Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Snail
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But sunshine is bad for snails! Noooooooooo!
Finally! A therapy to make me forget that movie!
This is a useful technology....for tyrants.
I agree. But I also wouldn't mind forgetting one or two things. However, I've also watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, so I know it ends with me having perpetual dementia-like fever dreams.
Finally I can replay Outer Wilds.
Yes. Good god yes. Was disappointed by the dlc though unfortunately. I want to like it but I just don’t.
But also replay Inscryption
It honestly was too scary for me. I don’t do horror games. The angler fish in the main game was almost too much for me
Scientists: No guys seriously what have we done I can't remember
Oh no, they fried the part of their brain that could tell the difference between snails and humans!
It reminds me of that old joke of the 2 scientists studying a fly.
Scientist 1: Fly, fly! Scientist 2: When fly has two wings fly flies 2 feet.
Scientist 1: pulls off one wing and says Fly, Fly! Scientist 2: When fly has 1 wing, fly flies 1 foot
Scientist 1: pulls off the other wing and says, Fly, fly!. Nothing happens Scientist 1 Fly, Fly! Nothing happens Scientist 1 showing frustration> FLY! FLY! Scientist 2: When fly has no wings, fly becomes deaf.
Bad-dum!
Whew, hopefully he'll forget he's supposed to track me till the end of time
Sorry bucko, it was a decoy snail
Since the comments all appear to be juvenile Reddit style jokes, here's TFA (the frickin article: https://futurism.com/scientists-selectively-erased-memories-in-snails-are-we-next#
Note, I'm not a scientist.
As I suspected it appears they tortured the snails somehow (my guess is electric shock) to create traumatic memories. This has been done with caterpillars I think to see if they retain memories after turning into butterflies and they do, despite basically turning into primordial goop in the cocoon. They do, and it's tested by seeing if they retain aversions to certain areas of their cages that are electrified.
Then something about enzymes created which associate memory with pain and being able to target them.
Pretty cool, and I for one definitely have a few traumas I'd like erased.
Pretty cool, and I for one definitely have a few traumas I’d like erased.
It's kinda neat, but I for one do not want to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind become a documentary. I mean I like the movie and all...but.
I think the scientists are more worried about why the snail's head is the size of a human rather than the memory loss...
It's the long hidden aliens that were driving the latest non-human aircraft
so aliens are actually just big snails, like the Voth from Star Trek
Interesting
decoy snail
Oh no the real one escaped
Probably a racing snail.
Why is the snail so large?!
It doesn't remember, sorry.
So they could use a normal sized eraser, duh.
My question is, how do they know what a snail is thinking or remembers? Last I knew snails didn’t talk.
Probably something like the snail learned to find food in a certain place, then they were able to make it forget such that it would search randomly instead of going to the place it had learned.
Lol, I can see it now.
“Im going to sit here for 8-12 hours and watch where this snail goes today.”
Sorry couldn’t resist.
Sounds like a good job.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mollusk
Humans experimenting on weaker animals has peak fashist vibes.
"bUt iTs oNLy a SnAiL" yeah and before anything happens on humand they will experiment on mammals.
"Hey guys... Is it fascist to want to learn more about the reality we find ourselves in?"
Call me Hitler but it's only a snail. If this can erase my dad strangling me or watching someone shoot themself from my brain IDC how many invertebrates die for it.
How many dogs and chimpanzees are you willing to murder for the human trial to fail in phase 2?
How many you got?
Dogs? We have a limitless supply, go nuts scientists. Chimps eh let's say less than 30, the lower the amount of chimps that die the better but at the end of the day, traumatic experiences vastly reduce quality of life for people, so if chimps gotta die, they gotta die.
This may be tough to hear but some poeple don't give a shit about animals.
Is that arrogant? Fuck yes. Is it hypocritical? From most people, yes. Is it wrong? Lol no, humanity rules over earth and I really don't see why we should (potentially) torture our own population in experiments rather than species that largely lack self awareness and often have problems with object permanence.
Animals are animals and unless one of them writes me an essay about how all of this is wrong in its own language I won't change my mind on that. The only species coming even remotely close to us in intellect and mind are dolphins and octopi, neither of which are commonly used for animal trials of anything except puzzles.
Would you prefer all medicines and other technologies skip trials and go straight to the counter?
last step in trials is poor people.