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How Did Tom Lincoln's memories get transferred to his clone?

posted 9 years ago by squishgirl
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I actually really enjoyed this movie - just watched it, and it's 2016 and this was made in 2005 and set only 10 years in the future, 2015 (according to the version of the eugenics ethics guidelines they mentioned) and they made the technology so futuristic. So I wished that they had put it a few more decades in the future. But the biggest thing that bothered me was that they had Tom Lincoln's memories go into his clone without an explanation. They did have Merrick look at the brain scans and say that the memories aren't his, but nothing more was said or even speculated about it. Did I miss something?

[–] CarbonFiber 9 years ago

Re memories-only explanation-pure magic. I absolutely agree that the time setting seems to be extremely optimistic. I think 25 to 50 years in the future might have been slightly more reasonable-I'm looking at you Black Wasp and wire supported elevated mass transit set in a forest of new skyscrapers.

[–] ManuelManipulation 9 years ago

The idea is that the memories were in Lincoln from the begining, that they are genetic since the person is cloned and rapidly aged to to an adult or maybe copied outright the memories are the same as the original... Different memories were implanted, but felt wrong to Lincoln since he was so inquisitive.

Memory transfer like this is nothing new in Sci-Fi: in the Underworld movies vampires can read the memories of others by drinking their blood

[–] Strazdamonas 9 years ago

every cell in our body in its core stores enough data to reproduce the entire map of our bodies. So far we have no idea to read that data and transfer it into growing tissue (hence - we cant clone people) but we actually made advanced to the point where we have some experimental organs grown that actually turned out functional. We do not know how much data is stored in that memory bank of our cells though. We mapped the DNA, but we didnt map cell core storage yet. perhaps those memories are somehow implanted in that core.

Similar ideas were specualted before, it baiscally boils down to whether genetic memory is real or not. and when it comes to real world science, its not as hardline answer as it used to be.

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[–] ManuelManipulation 9 years ago

It probably is at some level, it is as far as instinct because animals can only learn so much from watching their parents.
If memories are stored even chemically in the brain, and not just by electrical signals, and those chemicals chains are made of DNA, then there you go. I was rewatching MOON recently and its basically the same idea there.

[–] fp_ff_fp 8 years ago

It's set in 2019 (just watched it on TV). It is a very entertaining movie. It's just the standard Hollywood popcorn flick and I enjoy these now and then

I don't want every movie to be an epic masterpiece

[–] omoxus 8 years ago

Where do dreams go when you wake up? Is the conscience/love just a mixture of chemicals and electric synapses in the brain?

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