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Old 05-27-2020, 12:34 PM   #11
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I'm not at all sure, but I thought that EMDR is supposed to just change how you feel about memories rather than making you forget them?
One of the theories around it is that the simple act of recalling a memory, while in the process of doing something else (moving one's eyes), is enough to start fuzzing and blurring it when it's "repacked" back out of conscious awareness.


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Ultra Tech brain games might give you a targetted boost to skills like a temporary talent, or a will or perception bonus but it would be a +1 or +2 at best.
How do you think they'd be statted up? Maybe just draw from UltraTech's "Adders", but applied via interacting with a computer instead of swallowing a pill?

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There would also be no less number of medicine-show scammers who will sell you a flashy distraction game they couldn't market to an entertainment site as a mental gym program.
I was asking about the future, not the present. :)


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A way of inducing split personality. The technique comes in many different variants, each which creates a specific type of personality.

Have a boring job? Having trouble keeping up an exercise regime? Just create an extra extremely diligent personality and fast forward all the booring parts of your life as your main personality sleeps while the created one deals with all bothersome things.
Tulpamancy!
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Old 05-27-2020, 01:21 PM   #12
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The Envoys from Altered Carbon seem to have some not-overly-superscience mental tricks, though it only comes up a couple of times in season 1 of the show.
They come up a bit more often in the books.
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Old 05-27-2020, 01:43 PM   #13
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Maybe advanced brain imaging and further developments would bring NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) up to a standard of verifiability for the claims made here, for example.
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