How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past

by Steve Ramirez

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“How to Change a Memory is science on the hoof. It’s very much a personal story, and it’s written in a very lively style, presenting the helter-skelter of fast-moving science. It is a remarkable thing, to be able to say that you can take a brain and alter its memory. That you can go in and remove a sad memory, or remove the feeling of unhappiness, and make a person happy. Or, a rat, at least. But how far you go with that, I just don’t know. I’d love to hear what the philosophers have to say.” Read more...

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