Whew, hopefully he’ll forget he’s supposed to track me till the end of time
Sorry bucko, it was a decoy snail
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Every time I walk into another room.
Chemtrails are real but the chemicals are usually amnestics
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Well the scientists must be zapping me a lot in that case.
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It’s probably at your request, to help you get rid of a horrible / painful memory (comedy skit).
Haha, this skit really feels like it’s 14 years old. First time seeing it, thanks!
Pfft this guy doesn’t know how to see the invisible whales 🙄
Is this true?
Yeah, but it’s 5 years old.
Finally I can replay Outer Wilds.
I can play Omori without having been spoiled!
Such a great game. I’d also play through Undertale again with this
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
EXACTLY, I feel the same
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!
My question is, how do they know what a snail is thinking or remembers? Last I knew snails didn’t talk.
I read a study once about caterpillars getting shocked in their cages to teach them which areas are electrified. They retained this memory aversion after turning into butterflies. Probably something similar, basic behavioral observations to stimuli.
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.
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.
We can kinda do that. There are therapies that target trauma and recontextualize them. Look up EMDR, it’s really cool stuff.
How is torturing an animal cool?
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Because it can lead to treatment for human suffering. He says it in his post
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.
decoy snail
Oh no the real one escaped
Probably a racing snail.
Why is the snail so large?!
It doesn’t remember, sorry.
Exactly the reason they had to fund this project.
Cheaper than the lawsuit.
The scientists first enlarged the snail, but when the snail was too large to make love to his snail wife or hug his snail children without crushing them, he decided to sue. That is until he suddenly got amnesia somehow.
But that means he has a giant snail dick too! Shouldn’t his snail wife be happy?
It’s too big.
It’s not the size of the boat, it’s the motion in the ocean!
So they could use a normal sized eraser, duh.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Snail
Finally! A therapy to make me forget that movie!
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.
Would you prefer all medicines and other technologies skip trials and go straight to the counter?
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.
Peak human.
How many dogs and chimpanzees are you willing to murder for the human trial to fail in phase 2?
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.
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.
How many you got?
“Hey guys… Is it fascist to want to learn more about the reality we find ourselves in?”
There was a period during the Chinese Communist revolution that basically labeled a lot of modern science as capitalist propaganda.
There’s a book series that starts with that event, and is the inciting event that caused a group of scientists to basically invite a hostile race of aliens to earth to wipe out and rebuild society.
I forget the name, it’s by Cixin Liu
Edit: The Three Body Problem is the first book
If anyone stumbles across this, the entire series is amazing and worth your time
last step in trials is poor people.
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
I can give snails brain (ganglia?) damage too, you’re not that special, scientists.
