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Impossible_You_8555 t1_j5wzjo6 wrote

So one thing I do is I make an effort to go through and sometimes sit and enjoy my memories.

I am not sure OP but I can say if you sit and close your eyes, you can very vividly do it without tech.

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TheSensibleTurk t1_j5x1wph wrote

This might cause more trouble than it is worth. Countries would seal their borders in fear of espionage. If any government found a way to do this, it would be top secret and only known to few.

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kirpid t1_j5x64iq wrote

We already do. It’s called video. You have a recorder in your pocket. What else could you ask for?

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stupidimagehack t1_j5x64s4 wrote

You could do this now. The tech is there. The first iterations would be expensive but once the process smoothed out would be like a smartphone app.

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OnlyPharah t1_j5x78ll wrote

This should be common once Smart Glasses/Smart Contacts are worn everyday by most people.

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infpburnerlol t1_j5x9kbp wrote

Yes, brain computer interfaces would allow you to do just that. Things like neural link.

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kirpid t1_j5xatq0 wrote

Replying to clintCamp (#1,500,236)

I feel you. I have special ed scatter brain too. You can use it to your advantage if you explore your interests and take initiative, when you find a golden opportunity.

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jrosenrosen t1_j5xauzv wrote

One day AI will be so good, it will take your old vhs recordings and turn them into full 3d vr/ar experiences. In that way you could essentially relive some memories. I’d like to live an episode of Seinfeld.

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guyonahorse t1_j5xbxy0 wrote

The current understanding is that your brain changes your memories every time you recall them (it's very important for learning), so you won't have a perfect recall of things in the past.

Your brain can certainly trick you into thinking you're reliving a past event, but given it's your own brain, it can make you believe anything it wants. 🤪

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Dadlifebestlife t1_j5xev41 wrote

contact lens with a small camera probably isn’t too far off. we already have glasses with cameras on them. You can add an ear piece for audio, and paid the two. This can be done already though it wouldn’t be fully immersive.

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HelenAngel t1_j5xh1ga wrote

Doubtful especially since things like aphantasia exist. Some people just can’t generate mental images.

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FakeBenson t1_j5xhbe6 wrote

Everytime you remember a memory you are reconstructing it and re encoding it. So if we have a peice of tech that is projecting your memory on to a screen for instance it would be different to a noticeable degree every time.

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planethood4pluto t1_j5xkh1f wrote

Like some always-on Snapchat Spectacles? I’m only being half sarcastic here. Genuinely that’s how I see your idea coming to fruition someday. Not tapping literal memories but with continued miniaturization of cameras and sensors, could be integrated into daily use to create your own collection of first-person memories.

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rickygrimezz t1_j5xmmg5 wrote

Depends on how old you are...I could imagine this thing in the future definitely. Will you experience it? I don't know. I sure would love to be able to do this though. My best days and memories are definitely behind me. What I'd give to relive them!

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SeneInSPAAACE t1_j5xp9gu wrote

Memories don't work like that, but visualizing what's on our mind, that's ongoing research.

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burntburn454 t1_j5xpz5j wrote

I would want every shameful and cringey moment of my life played back to me on my death bed so when I call out to jesus christ for help it would be entirely genuine.

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landob t1_j5xqtak wrote

After watching that Black Mirror episode revolving around this, I don't want it.

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Nohface t1_j5xvcdz wrote

I’ll go Against the grain in this thread and say of course we will. The brain is electrical impulses basically and once we learn to identify the patterns and input points very definitely we will be able to record experiences and mimic those inputs into the brain.

A lot of sci fi has been written about this, most interestingly (to me) is William Gibsons and Philip Dicks works. At some point I assume we will figure out ac way so that the brain no longer can distinguish from real and recorded experiences.

What’s interesting also is that other side of this trope which is editing or revising memories. Not sure about that one but I imagine probably it will eventually be a thing

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wagner56 t1_j5y33im wrote

brain is hard to work

but simply wearing a rig every moment of your life that can record everything and offers playback seems the easiest solution

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lofgren777 t1_j5y6roz wrote

Not in our lifetime.

The problem with these kinds of interfaces is that they would have to be totally personalized. Your brain has some preprogrammed behaviors, but mostly it starts with crude structures and then learns to do stuff like store and recall memories from practice. This means that while everybody's memories are stored the same way, it's not like you could ever transfer one memory from one person to another.

You would have to break the memory down into component parts and have the receiver's brain rebuild them for itself, and even then it might have some of the same elements but it would not be the same memory. All of our memories also consist of details that we fill in based on assumptions and experiences, which the receiving brain would do differently.

Recalling your own memories is probably easier than transferring memories, but faces many of the same challenges.

In any event, I do not believe that we will ever be able to do this with a memory that was not recorded specifically for this purpose. The noise in the brain is just too great to isolate a specific memory if we weren't watching it happen the first time it was recorded.

Before we get to reliving memories, we will have devices to stimulate new experiences based on random combinations of memories, which will be used for therapy like overcoming PTSD.

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EDH70 t1_j5y8yrp wrote

It’s already here. How many of you have photos you’ve taken from a year ago, sent directly to you, from your photo storage.

“This is what you were doing a year ago.”

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wisintel t1_j5yenhd wrote

I imagine an AI like stable diffusion that can take the pieces of a memory and fill in the blanks. So you won’t get exactly what happened but a reasonable recreation.

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psychedoutcasts t1_j5yrsu1 wrote

Currently? The only time that happens is likely during death.

Will it be possible in the future? Not likely. Capitalism will prevent any sort of ingenuity of that level. If it did, however, it would only be accessible to those that have the finances for it.

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UniversalMomentum t1_j5zczlz wrote

I’d say 50-100 years for high Fidelity access to our brains, including probably the ability to copy and render them in a computer eventually.

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KainX t1_j5zf7z5 wrote

Anecdotal, but psychedelic's can do this for some people. They can even allow you to zoom out and link together all the decisions in your life that led you up to that moment. I think this is one of the many reason people have profound realizations when using them.

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strvgglecity t1_j60w1aq wrote

Replying to OnlyPharah (#1,499,958)

Do you think that will occur? I've worked with companies making them, and I don't think the majority of people will want it after experiencing and acknowledging all the negative consequences of smartphones and mobile internet. My #1 reason I'll likely never use one is privacy. A corporation or government will literally be able to see what you see and have even greater insight into your every waking moment to sell you ads and propaganda. I think it will remain a niche product.

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passwordsarehard_3 t1_j618mo7 wrote

Replying to Impossible_You_8555 (#1,499,011)

When I was young I wanted to bend the world to my will. As I grew I realized it wouldn’t bend, I then wanted to burn it to the ground and start fresh. I’m too old to guide it now even if it was given to me. Now I just want a comfortable chair next to a warm fire and an old friend to reminisce about our follies.

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autistic_bard444 t1_j61ug5g wrote

as someone who has cptsd/ptsd

i sure the hell hope not

bad enough we have to relive that shit sometimes daily/weekly from intrusive thoughts

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notthephonz t1_j61vhn9 wrote

Replying to landob (#1,501,992)

I don’t think that episode sold me so much on the dangers of video memory so much as the dangers of being paranoid and insecure.

But also, the dude was right, the Doctor was cheating on him, so…?

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ADAMSMASHRR t1_j6262hq wrote

Memory recall would have to be captured to a computer which has an AI model that can reconstruct them visually or in VR (think Braindances from Cyberpunk. Memories are extremely compressed versions of past perception, you couldn't just copy them directly from a human brain

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mbcummings t1_j62fxf9 wrote

Yes. But only you can view it as a live stream without fast forward or random access. So the older you get the more footage exits and less time you have to watch it. Like now.

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violetcastles_ t1_j62mspi wrote

Probably not in the way you're thinking, just because memory isn't encoded like that. Just like our normal cognitive processes, memory uses a bunch of heuristics (or shortcuts) to get the most bang for your buck, synaptic efficiency wise. Because of this, it would likely be impossible to recreate a memory fully based on existing data after the fact because that much data just isn't collected and stored (as far as we know).

The best way for a technology like this to exist with our current understanding (which changes daily!) would be for everyone to wear a camera all the time and backup their recordings each day. Lol.

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Pickles_1974 t1_j65frdp wrote

No, not in our lifetime. We don't understand the brain well enough.

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