Who would ever want a memory implant?

How do you know you haven't had one.

I could see it being used for people with PTSD, etc.

You have not throught it through.

What are experiences in life? Memories. Everything becomes a memory, even you writing your ignorant and downright thoughtless post.

Why is nostalgy such a powerful, big thing? I think the word originally meant something like 'pain from homesickness' or something along those lines.

Why do people cry about the past, yearn for the good, old times? Because they REMEMBER them.

This movie's premise is that it doesn't matter if it's a REAL memory or a FAKE memory, it will be just as powerful to you, and you can remember it just as fondly. You are shaped and cultivated by your experiences and the people you meet - but if you don't have opportunity to do this 'for real', and the fake memories are just as convincing, what would it matter if you ACTUALLY did it or if it's just faked, as long as you EXPERIENCE (the key word here) it as powerfully and nostalgically?

As EVERYTHING you do becomes 'just a memory' - you can't hold on to anything, everything becomes basically sand between your fingers and falls down to abyss of oblivion - memories are THE things to get, when you want to experience something.

What difference does it make if you go to a holodeck to experience a great trip and then come back and remember it fondly for the rest of your life, OR that same memory is just IMPLANTED into you, so you can remember it just as fondly and powerfully, when the end result is the same anyway?

I wonder if you forgot your post, or if it comes back to haunting you as a memory.. wouldn't YOU like to have it be revealed that it never really happened, it was all just a memory implant?

The MAIN thing about all of this is that it doesn't REALLY matter if it's 'implanted memories' or 'holodeck' or 'The Construct' (like in 'The Matrix').

What matters is that there's a macguffin that can give the user a 'great virtual experience'.

The only reason it matters here, is that the story is built around the 'memory' thing.

So to answer you question; EVERYONE.

Which would you rather have, a vivid memory of you eating oatmeal in a dark room yesterday, or a vivid memory of you wildly adventuring in all kinds of glorious worlds, suited to your tastes, doing exciting things and practicing activities you always wanted to do or love to do, with the kind of people that you would really love a lot, and who would love you?

I mean, it's a no-brainer, OF COURSE you would want the latter implanted to you rather than just whatever you would otherwise have, why wouldn't you? It's an insane question. There's NO argument against the memory implant (if it's safe), but there's gotta be a zillion arguments for it.

Your question is as insane as asking 'who would ever want to have a functional holodeck to use every day'. It's like.. what.. who wouldn't?! If you can have a DREAM EXPERIENCE, but make it feel AS REAL AS IF YOU EXPERIENCED IT, why the heck would you not want it??

Doing the most fantastic thing in real life doesn't last, it will become just a memory. So implanting that memory would basically be the same thing as doing it, except that you didn't do it, but your brain would never know it.

This kind of thing COULD become the 'drug of the future', if there's a dystopia, where poor people can't eat enough and such (hmm.. surely such poverty is just fiction, right.. RIGHT??), so they get some cheap memory implants of eating gourmet meals, so at least they can dupe themselves into thinking they are regularly having luxurious meals, while only eating a rat and a half every week.

I mean, that could make for an interesting story if all the psychological implications are taken into account.

I would probably still not take any memory implants, as I like to keep things real, and I don't believe in hedonism, but spiritual cultivation through pain, misery, suffering and paying your karmic debts. Trying to escape your karma would just backfire somehow anyway (as we can see from this movie).

I'm never going to Mars. I'm never going to be a secret agent, uncover an ancient Martian civilization, or sleep with peak Sharon stone. I would go to a dream virtual reality world in a heartbeat.

I'm way past my mid-point in life so I can say that, if it could be safer than what's shown in this film, I'd absolutely do it, but only if my wife would agree to go through it with me

We're late-stage parents, so there are a ton of things we wanted to do but never will, like hike to Machu Picchu or even see Venice (because we're getting too old to do that much walking). We haven't been back to Paris since our honeymoon.

But if we could share implanted memories of those never-to-be trips, I'd consider it worthwhile. Sure, we'd know they were false, but we'd still have had them together.

Seriously, how cool would it be to share an ego trip with someone you love? "Remember that time when we were glamorous super spies"?

Or if she weren't up to it, I'd happily accept an implant of experiencing every Disney theme park ride, worldwide, WITHOUT having to travel there or wait in those damn lines.

Again, I'm getting on in years. I'm losing two close friends to cancer within the next few months. So I've gotten a bit philosophical about it all and I've concluded that it really is all about experience. You can't take anything with you when you go, so material goods and accomplishments really don't mean much. Life is an experience, not a job.

Yeah, I'd do it.

Depends on your past I would think. I had a pretty crappy childhood and have been stolen from, cheated on, Betrayed by family, etc. So I might not mind some memories of traveling to Mars to erase some of the ones I have. I get your experiences make you who you are but I can't afford to travel to the Bahamas on my 2+ jobs after paying my mortgage. Nevermind the price of Mars. 🦄🐝

one thing would be that i would want no one to know i went to recall so when i do talk about the trip i took, or whatever thing i had them make me think i did, to other people, they don't roll their eyes knowing i never really went on the trip, making me look like a fool because i wouldn't remember ever going to recall at all and on the other hand i wouldn't want to go to recall without at least one person i knew knowing i was going just in case recall fries my brain and dumps me in the trash or a johnnycab somewhere, it would be good to have someone knowing i went there so i could eventually sue.