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Have you ever wished that you could just erase a bad memory? A bad breakup, an injury, or perhaps an alien invasion?

This is called a neuralizer. This red eye here will isolate the electronic impulses in your brains, more specifically the ones for memory.

Or maybe you wanted to add a memory to your brain's catalog, something you used to remember but forgot, or something you wish you'd experienced.

Then come to Recall, Incorporate, where you can buy the memory of your ideal vacation, cheaper, safer, and better than the real thing.

Maybe you want to compartmentalize less for the severed parts of your memory to be made whole again.

It's a process called reintegration. It's a way to recouple memories so we can be one person. Or maybe you just wish your memories of past events or certain places weren't so blurry.

This place is like somebody's memory of a town and the memory's fading. Stop saying like that. It's unprofessional.

Now, of course, those were all Hollywood portrayals of memory manipulation you just heard. Men in

Black, total recall, severance, true detective, and truly we could have gone on and on. Memory is core to our experience as humans.

So it makes sense that we'd want to explore its potential, push its limits, and that we'd want

to make movies that imagine just how horribly, horribly wrong this could go. But the science

of memory manipulation, that's real.

And it may not lead to the dystopian anthology of memory-themed stories that film and TV have cooked up for us.

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