Thursday, October 19, 2006

Total Recall???? OH NO!!!!!!!!

Have you ever wished for a backup brain -- a device that could remember everything in your life from the smallest of details to your most memorable moments?

Computer engineer Gordon Bell, a researcher for Microsoft Corp., is working on just such a mechanism. He's trying to devise what amounts to a digital diary, a searchable database that contains digitized versions of nearly everything in his life.

"The quest is to essentially build a surrogate memory. Something that's as good as my own memory, that I can use it as a supplement, and will remember everything that I should have remembered, that came to my ears, eyes, whatever," Bell said of his experiment.Conceivably you could someday be able to rehear every conversation you had when you were 20 and search for all photographs of your cousin John.
(Copied in part from a CNN article by Taylor Gandossy)

What a boon to people who want to live in the past. It’s not like they are researching a way for you to go back and FIX any areas where you screwed up…..just a way for you to go back and relive the experience over and over. Interesting in concept….but what would happen to HIS-story if we do that?

Would you want a record…an EXACT record of everything you have done and said all your life? Aren't the subtle ways in which the human mind tends to only remember the good things and forgets the pain in fact a blessing? Isn't that what keeps us sane and moving forward in life? I enjoy remembering my life the way I recall it! I don't think I want reality to interfere with my memory! LOL
I await your opinions!

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ayer descubrí que mientras más ayude a los demás a ser mejores y más felices, yo soy un poco mejor y un poco más feliz.

Anonymous said...

Estoy de acuerdo. Ya que vivir en el pasado solo trae remordimientos, y es por eso que no me interesa la psicología, siempre te llevan al pasado, que uno no puede resolver. El momento de ahora es el único que es importante.

Anonymous said...

A Elena, la idea de que Jim se mude a su casa la molesta, y expresa ese sentimiento diciéndole que no está preparada para ese cambio fundamental en la relación. Lo quiere mucho, pero, por ahora, quisiera que él tuviese su propia vivienda.

Si Elena fuera una persona menos franca y directa, su oposición podría llegar a expresarse de otra manera. Quizás se distanciara de Jim, mostrándose menos afectuosa, o diciéndole que ha decidido pintar su departamento y que él tendrá que llevarse sus cosas hasta que haya terminado con los trabajos. Por el contrario, expresa su resistencia sin ambigüedades y el mensaje queda clara. La respuesta es 'no'.

Mi opinión es no hay que vivir juntos para estar enamorados...no hay que vivir en el pasado...
No tenemos que obligarnos en el amor...
Es muy dificil estar en pareja...

Worker said...

I agree....too much in the past will keep you small. We learn to accept our mistakes of the past, and move forward with the knowledge gained from a failure or success! This is the way we grow

Rob said...

Nice blog Worker....interesting topic!

Anonymous said...

Great topic.estoy de acuerdo de nada sirve recordar lo que no tenemos

Anonymous said...

Me gustaría saber el nombre del autor de este blog...si es posible ya qe es muy bueno

Anonymous said...

Muy buen articulo

Anonymous said...

Hay que vivir el momento

Anonymous said...

Good writing...keep it up