Memory 2.0?

Or, just what can neuroscience do to alter human memory?

I agree with Thomas J. Carew. Other than limited efforts to soften PTSD-inducing effects of recent traumas, a skilled attempt to edit memory is decades in the future, because scientists still have a quasi-20th-century-genetics understanding of neurotransmitters, etc.

“There is not going to be one, single memory molecule, the system is just not that simple,” said Carew, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, and president of the Society for Neuroscience. “There are going to be many molecules involved, in different kinds of memories, all along the process of learning, storage and retrieval.”

And, there’s still the 1984, or Brave New World, factor, involved.