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Originally posted by mrap1
[B]They can't just erase 8 years of his life to make him famous, they would have to also erase everybody else's mind for the last eight years which would probably be a lot of work. And I doubt that they can greatly if at all alter memories.
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Why not? Who is to say what they can and cannot do? They've got the majority of the human race hooked up as batteries. The human race doing their impression of a Duracell is a pretty big stretch of the ol' imagination already isn't it?
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To change a memory would theoretically be much harder than to delete a memory. I mean if they want to erase someones memories all they would have to do is to kill a few brain cells. If they wanted to change those memories, i supppose they might be able to, to a small extent, but only if it's an insignificant small change.
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We change our memories everyday. The further in the past they are the easier they are to manipulate. We romanticize an old relationship; we pine over the girl who got away rather then the girl who ran screaming; we remember the Charleton Heston playing Moses, Ben-Hur, and Brutus, but forget that he played a role in "Cats and Dogs." People only really remember what they want to remember. Millions of people wouldn't need the personal validation that Cypher is a big time movie star only
told that Cypher is a big time movie star.
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No, the easist way to go about it is to totally erase his memory and let him start from scratch with rich and famous parents.
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Maybe. How long do bodies survive being batteries? 60, 70 years? If he was inserted as a babe, then his real body would still be in its 40's right? So, they'd have to kill off the "Matrix Cypher" early wouldn't they?
