Is Versed being used for torture?
Here’s my most disturbing idea yet. There are drugs which erase memory (or rather block the formation of memories while they are used.) It seems disturbingly probable to me that these might be being...
View ArticleVersed for couple's counselling
I’ve been away because I had to have my gall bladder removed, thanks to a gallstone the size of a small moon. Unfortunately they had to do it “old school” rather than laproscopically, which means the...
View ArticleA real life Newcomb's Paraodox
This week I participated in this thread on Newcomb’s Paraodox which was noted on BoingBoing.The paradox:A highly superior being from another part of the galaxy presents you with two boxes, one open and...
View ArticleSquicky memory erasure story with propofol
I have written a few times before about versed, the memory drug and the ethical and metaphysical questions that surround it. I was pointed today to a story from Time about propofol, which like the Men...
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