Julia Shaw

I think it was a tropical vacation or something that he'd offer people.

And he then said, well, but you're not going to be able to remember this.

Would you still go?

And a lot of people say, no, I wouldn't go on that holiday if I can't remember it.

I think that's interesting.

And I think that...

sort of pics or it didn't happen.

So the social media generation obviously is perhaps even more in line with that also in terms of how you deal with that in a social context, sort of sharing those memories with others and those experiences and which experiences end up being the important ones in our lives.

ridiculous thing that happens now whenever something cool is happening people take out their phones and film it but the case for that is that yeah this gives you actual something to look back at that it's worthwhile to take a picture actually although it's even more worthwhile to pay attention so attention is the glue between reality and memory and so if you're using your phone to not have to pay attention and not have to put any work into remembering it then you're going to look at that picture later and go what was this because you've tried to outsource it in a way that our brains don't work

Yeah.

I mean, that's basically what we do as human beings already.

And I don't see why tech couldn't do exactly the same thing.

Yeah.

Language, but also think about it yourself.

It's called auto-suggestion when you suggest things to yourself that didn't happen.

And that often comes from reading something or seeing something or thinking about something or hearing somebody else's story and going, does something like that happen to me?

And then you start picturing it and thinking about in what context it could have.

And then you start to basically implant a false memory in yourself.

And so that can happen as well.

And I think with things like Neuralink, it would be the same, where you'd have the ability to do that.