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If the fringe theory of microtubules storing memories in quantum states in the human brain is correct, there is a critical magnetic field past which you'd forget everything... including the things you learned in infancy, like how to hold your head up, crawl, talk, etc.

I suspect that critical field would be somewhere near 1000 Tesla, as the critical temperature is well above 2000k. (The theory is that memories are stored in a topological superconductor which would denature well before the critical temperature was reached)

This type of reversion to infancy is the stuff of nightmares.




Thanks to the CIA's extremely vital work in the 1960s (MKUltra), there apparently has been research into this...

http://www.ect.org/dr-camerons-casualties/

e.g. using a tape loop to encourage people to forget who their parents are.

Ethics is important.


Archived copy from 2008 : https://web.archive.org/web/20080223080510/http://www.ect.or...

(I have a php error with the direct url)


> If the fringe theory of microtubules storing memories in quantum states in the human brain is correct, there is a critical magnetic field past which you'd forget everything... including the things you learned in infancy, like how to hold your head up, crawl, talk, etc.

This was a plot point in one of my favorite sci-fi books [0]. I thought it was totally made up for the book.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413556-the-gone-world




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