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In 2013, at MIT, scientists wrote a false memory into a mouse's brain using light. It became afraid of a box where it had never been shocked.

This video opens four files: writing, mapping, reading and influencing the mind. It separates what science has already done from what is still fiction (Severance, The Matrix, Roko's Basilisk) and ends on a question: who has the key?

Coursework for the Computers and Society class, UFES.

Chapters
0:00 Opening
0:59 The contract
1:56 Locked memory
3:27 File 1 · Write
4:39 File 2 · Map
6:05 File 3 · Read
7:38 File 4 · Influence
8:47 Reality
10:19 The evil robot
11:48 Closing

Sources

Memory

  • Radvansky, G. A.; Copeland, D. E. (2006). Walking through doorways causes forgetting. Memory & Cognition.
  • Ramirez, S.; Liu, X. et al. (2013). Creating a False Memory in the Hippocampus. Science.
  • MIT News (2013). Interview with Susumu Tonegawa on false memory in mice.
  • Ryan, T. J.; Roy, D. S.; Pignatelli, M.; Arons, A.; Tonegawa, S. (2015). Engram cells retain memory under retrograde amnesia. Science.

Mapping

  • Dorkenwald, S. et al. (2024). Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain. Nature.
  • Shiu, P. K. et al. (2024). A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing. Nature.
  • Princeton University (2024). Announcement of the FlyWire project.

Reading

  • Owen, A. M. et al. (2006). Detecting Awareness in the Vegetative State. Science.
  • Bodien, Y. G. et al. (2024). Cognitive Motor Dissociation in Disorders of Consciousness. New England Journal of Medicine.
  • Tang, J.; LeBel, A.; Jain, S.; Huth, A. G. (2023). Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings. Nature Neuroscience.
  • Neuralink (2024). Public demonstration by the company.

Influence

  • Kramer, A. D. I.; Guillory, J. E.; Hancock, J. T. (2014). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. PNAS.
  • PNAS (July 2014). Editorial Expression of Concern about the study above.

Reality and AI

  • Bostrom, N. (2003). Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? Philosophical Quarterly.
  • Roko (2010). Original post on the LessWrong forum (Roko's Basilisk).
  • Ienca, M.; Andorno, R. (2017). Towards new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology. Life Sciences, Society and Policy.

Fiction cited

  • Severance, Apple TV+, 2022.
  • The Matrix, Warner Bros., 1999.

Production
The narration and the soundtrack were generated by artificial intelligence (voice with OmniVoice, music with MusicGen). Animations made with HyperFrames.

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