a mild version of this would make for interesting entertainment: slip into someone else’s life for a few hours.

Neuroscientists have shown that they can plant false memories in the brains of mice. They also found that many of the neurological traces of these memories are identical in nature to those of authentic memories.

The opposite is also possible:

Chinese scientists were able to use a chemical – the protein alpha-CaM kinase II – to successfully erase memories from the minds of mice.

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