RE: TMS...the truth is out there...

From: Spike (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 22:04:44 MDT

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    Brett Paatsch:

    > > ... "we've been able to do selective memory wiping for
    > > at least a year now..."

    >...I was joking about wiping away any feelings of guilt that
    >might arise if one could and did wipe away particular memories
    >at will... Brett Paatsch

    Surgical removal of guilt feelings would be a wildly
    popular application of such a technology, were it
    to become available. Of course one would suffer
    condemnation from *every* major religion, this
    being their jealously guarded line of business,
    in which they would not welcome additional competition.

    A better use of this tech would be in dentistry.
    Do let me offer this scenario:

    A coworker comes to the office raaaaving about a
    wonderful new dentistry office in town, Needleman
    and Paatsch. One goes into the office, wait for ones
    name to be called, then as if by magic one immediately
    find oneself again in the sitting room, teeth all
    fixed, three hours past and no problem at all.

    Coworkers try this and all agree, it is the very most
    perfectly painless oral procedure ever.

    So you go in, but being an inquiring mind, you ask
    the practitioners what is this wonderful anesthetic
    they have discovered. They tell you it isn't anesthetic
    at all, but a post op memory wipe. You will still
    suffer all the pain of an ordinary oral operation
    without anesthetic. More so in fact, for the
    memory wipe is more effective if the exact
    memories can be identified by increased contrast:
    the doctors actually enhance your pain.

    This of course evokes further questioning from
    you, upon which time you learn that upon walking
    thru the door, a pair of burly galoots strip the
    patient naked and tie him or her to the chair,
    attach electrodes to the testicles or nipples, apply
    excruciating electric shocks while the doctor
    performs the procedure. The shock levels are
    not high enough to leave any scars, just enough
    to cause the patients to shriek in unspeakable agony.

    You decline the procedure, returning to the office
    to tell your coworkers what they have been thru.
    One says he doesn't care, his teeth are fixed,
    he felt no pain, has lost no skill, knowledge nor
    wisdom, other than his wisdom teeth. But another
    coworker starts to squirm uncomfortably as she realizes
    the cruel torture she has apparently suffered. She
    eventually goes back to Dr. Needleman and has him erase
    the memory of your telling her about the doctor's methods.
    That works. In fact, she later returns and has Needleman
    erase the memory of her entire second marriage,
    this being easily identified by it's being a
    biorecord of pain and misery from start to finish.

    Of course it is only a matter of time before word
    gets around and a long waiting list soon forms
    on Needleman's appointment book, as patients want
    all feelings of guilt removed from their brains, this
    being a very special kind of pain: the kind that
    actually gets worse as time passes.

    spike



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