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Asked 6th Sep, 2012

Memories of Experience

Can human Long Term Memories be ever mapped and downloadable?

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Sidharta Chatterjee
Andhra University
Well there seems to be some distant possibilities, but would be fascinating when that time comes;
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But I am not sure enough how far it is science or just fiction.
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