Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Snail
We're monsters
Submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 8 months ago
PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Whew, hopefully he’ll forget he’s supposed to track me till the end of time
edgarallenpwn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
That’s incredible, I was aware of the tileman mode plug in, but this is inspired.
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Savvy95@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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!
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I like this. First time hearing it.
solstice@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Since the comments all appear to be juvenile Reddit style jokes, here’s TFA (the frickin article: futurism.com/scientists-selectively-erased-memori…
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.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Wogi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We can kinda do that. There are therapies that target trauma and recontextualize them. Look up EMDR, it’s really cool stuff.
solstice@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There is debate about how the therapy works and whether it is more effective than other established treatments.[1][5] The eye movements have been criticized as having no scientific basis.[6] The founder promoted the therapy for the treatment of PTSD, and proponents employed untestable hypotheses to explain negative results in controlled studies.[7] EMDR has been characterized as a pseudoscientific purple hat therapy (i.e., only as effective as its underlying therapeutic methods without any contribution from its distinctive add-ons).[8]
I read about that fifteen years ago and dismissed it as pseudoscience. Wikipedia confirms. Pass (thanks though, don’t mean to be rude)
Emerald@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How is torturing an animal cool?
SCB@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because it can lead to treatment for human suffering. He says it in his post
gayhitler420@lemm.ee 8 months ago
🕵️♂️🐜
illusoryMechanist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Scientists: No guys seriously what have we done I can’t remember
froghorse@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Have you ever entered a room and forgot why you came in?
How about your dreams at night? Or what you had for dinner last month?
I think that memory-deletion is much more common than we think. Like vast invisible whales floating through your living room.
Of course we’d never know it.
GreenMario@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Misconduct@startrek.website 8 months ago
Pfft this guy doesn’t know how to see the invisible whales 🙄
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Chemtrails are real but the chemicals are usually amnestics
froghorse@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I wonder if a general approach to inducing amnesia would be the best approach.
I think that we always take what we’ve got - what we see, memories - no matter how flimsy, and stitch together a plausible narrative from that.
So the amnesia doesn’t have to be very precise. Our amnesiator could basically be just a brain damage ray
xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 8 months ago
I think the scientists are more worried about why the snail’s head is the size of a human rather than the memory loss…
QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 8 months ago
It’s the long hidden aliens that were driving the latest non-human aircraft
nxdefiant@startrek.website 8 months ago
decoy snail
SomeBoyo@feddit.de 8 months ago
Oh no the real one escaped
Techmaster@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Probably a racing snail.
Speiser0@feddit.de 8 months ago
Why is the snail so large?!
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It doesn’t remember, sorry.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Exactly the reason they had to fund this project.
Cheaper than the lawsuit.
Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
So they could use a normal sized eraser, duh.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 8 months ago
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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
“Hey guys… Is it fascist to want to learn more about the reality we find ourselves in?”
Wogi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There was a period during the Chinese Communist revolution that basically labeled a lot of modern science as capitalist propaganda.
Femcowboy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 8 months ago
How many dogs and chimpanzees are you willing to murder for the human trial to fail in phase 2?
datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
last step in trials is poor people.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I can give snails brain (ganglia?) damage too, you’re not that special, scientists.
Lammy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is this true?
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, but it’s 5 years old.
Efwis@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
My question is, how do they know what a snail is thinking or remembers? Last I knew snails didn’t talk.
UnendingQuest@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Efwis@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
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.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mollusk
anewbeginning@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is useful technology…for tyrants.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 8 months ago
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.