Headline Jan 13,2013/

''YOUR LIFE IS AS BIG AS YOUR MEMORY''

The place of memory in the pursuit of happiness suggests something essential about identity
''By'' rewriting memories pharmacologically we might succeed in easing real suffering at the risk of falsifying our perception of the world and undermining our true identity


As is so often the case with scientific innovations that feel like hypothetical problems, it's easy to imagine dystopian worst-case scenarios involving propranolol. What if the government used this drug to intensify the brutality of warfare, knowing the long term cost on soldiers could be chemically mitigated.

What if people used it simply because they didn't want to fixate over bad memories or relationships. It would seem that propranolol -like virtually everything else invented by man, has a short term upside and a long-term consequence. The small picture provides benefits for victims of genuine pain; the big suggests a confused society that consciously elects to expunge the pain that makes us humans. .


But perhaps there is third picture that's even bigger: Do people have the right to create their reality?
Who gets to decide the size of someone's life?


So, let me attempt at defining Reality in this context: Reality is defined by what we know, and we obviously can't know what we don't remember. For a variety of reasons, the premise of taking a pill that changes your relationship with memory seems very very scary and alarming!!?


Respectful dedication to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for doing the highest service to education by donating $ 15-7 million apiece to both Cambridge University and the University of Edinburgh to build new Islamic Studies centers.


Don't miss the next post. Scary as Hell! Many thanks to !WOW!

Good Night & God Bless!

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