Name: The UnXplained: The Future of Memory Manipulation (Season 1) | SERIES RETURNS 2/29 | History
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WILLIAM SHATNER: Boston, Massachusetts, July, 2013.

Scientists at Boston University published the results

that called into question literally everything we know.

A few years ago, we had a series of experiments

where we were able to create a false memory

We put our rodents in a safe environment,

And we developed a set of genetic tricks, where the brain

cells that held on to the memory of that safe environment now

put the animals in a completely different environment.

And we gave them a couple of mild foot shocks

in that environment, in an attempt to startle them.

But the key thing is that we could shoot light

into the brain and reactivate that cells that

So one of the ways that we've known that we've switched

the memories is that the animal no longer behaviorally

And then, that at least opened up the floodgates to this idea

that we can artificially manipulate memories in general.

We might be able to one day perform some kind of surgery

or some kind of intervention in the brain to enhance memories

that we don't want to be lost as a result of Alzheimer's, or

suppressed memories, let's say, that we don't want to be there

in cases of PTSD, or suppressed emotions, for instance,

can put memories on a card in a video camera

And it's possible that you could manipulate the chemical,

You can take one file out and put another file in.

In the future, we'll be able to record memories, play them

And I wouldn't be surprised that in the future,

and have that vacation that you never had.

But once we learn how to add and remove files

some kind of safeguard system, some kind of firewall

without us letting them, then trusting our memories

The implications are as profound as they are frightening.

For example, how do you know if you actually watched this show?

How would you be able to tell the difference?

Just when we think we've figured out everything there is

to learn about the human mind, we realize how little we really

to know before there's nothing left that is unexplained.

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