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Dead Men Tell Tales

10/11/2010 3:05 PM

Does anyone think it will ever be possible to retrieve memory from a murder victim or have I been watching too much CSI?

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10/11/2010 4:08 PM

Hell, I can barely remember why I went into the kitchen.

Turn off the TV, it rots your brain.

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10/11/2010 4:19 PM

See, just attach these electrodes, and....ahhh...It's a beer! He was getting a beer and.. and freeze it right there! It looks like....It's a frying pan.

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10/11/2010 4:39 PM

Of course they will be able to do it, but it wont be admissable in court. That's becasue right before they stab you, they will show you a picture of someone they are framing for your murder.

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10/11/2010 4:54 PM

I don't get it. Why would anyone bother to frame a picture if they were going to kill me anyway?? Although a nice frame can enhance a photo.

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10/11/2010 4:59 PM

In order to remember you before you were married to eachother. Ahhhh, good times.

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10/11/2010 6:48 PM

gonna be kinda tuff to do with all those mindless idiots with drivers license

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10/11/2010 9:24 PM

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10/12/2010 8:54 AM

Dear guestoff,

Your response is valueless, considering the fact that there can exist only one "worlds foremost authority" which you are not. I sense this simple question going off on some unscientific tangent.

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10/12/2010 9:11 AM

I find the question interesting. I imagine it will be possible to retrieve some memory. What experiments have been done in an attempt to do so, are not known to me.

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10/12/2010 9:34 AM

Thank you, I thought it interesting and found that there are many theories on how human memory works. If in fact, human memory is volatile, how long does it take to decay? Could the most recent input be retained for a certain length of time?

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10/12/2010 9:01 PM

Feeling around in my own mind, for which I have had a fair number of mandated, or volunteered for tests, I can come up with at least some anecdotal reports.

I don't know what experiments have already been done in this area, which is not all that new in consideration of physical and mental studies.

In fact I was prompted to ask a Post Doctoral in psychiatry, neuroscience? student at Duke about the possibilities this afternoon, when he and his sister and Grandma visited the store. (Sister bought a photograph I had made.)

Anyway he was positive about the possibility.

Certainly to achieve retrevial of the last memories would call for you to know exactly where they were commonly put in any brain.

P.S. I am certified sane as there were doubts in some court proceedings, everybody else is suspect...

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10/13/2010 9:32 AM

If in fact there is some sort of timeline involved, or merely the fact that the most recent event would be the most prominent, I get the feeling it might be accessible with technologies available, especially recognition of a particular data set amongst the entire "package" (or what remains of it).

Notice that there is a tendency to discuss human memory function in compairison to computer function. Interesting!

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10/11/2010 9:27 PM

When the brain is dead the person is dead.

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10/13/2010 4:10 AM

...and the brain starts to deteriorate about 3 min after its oxygen supply is isolated, assuming it survives the event undamaged.

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10/12/2010 6:56 AM

Interesting question? Is memory a biological structure within a cell, or a separate chemical combination? Memory to remain active requires oxygen, does death destroy the cell or the ability to access memory? If it is access then memories are still available, and the awareness of being a separate chemical structure that collapses on death, leaving memory intact? But the order that they are relevant nonsensical.

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10/12/2010 11:25 AM

I don't want you to retrieve information from dead memory but just fix my very bad memory ?

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10/18/2010 8:34 PM

Sure it is possible - hire a reputable medium and conduct a seance.

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11/13/2010 1:08 PM

Wrnining...Warnning....

No one should try to conduct a seance.

I advice every one, don't try to conduct a seance by any way , every one done that before his life ended up in a very mysterious terrible way.

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11/13/2010 3:26 PM

Actually when you conduct a seance you communicate with a devil not with the spirit of a dead person,the devil lies and pretends that he is the spirit of a dead man.

You can't communicate with the spirit of a dead person but actually with a devil.

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11/13/2010 3:49 PM

I'll bet that both you and 'Guest' are fun at parties.

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