Without the past, there will be no future. Imagine living everyday like it's your first. Isn't that what it would be like? Would we not be confused beings if we were forced to get rid of any trace of memory? Zombies. We would just be zombies. Even the replicas in the film 'Blade Runner' would be more human than us. Although with the replicas, I argue that if they were to exist, they would be considered humans anyway, only dualists would argue that replicas are nothing but robots because they are "soulless" and created by man. Dennett's example of a magnet and a zagnet humorously mocks the belief that these replicas could not be human. It is the same as saying, 'here I have a zagnet, it fulfils the same functions as a magnet, so it looks and acts like a magnet', well... isn't it just a magnet then??
Back to 'Memory Palace', the story has been set at a time where you are forced to forget. It seems to be like a new form of slavery. This makes you wonder whether this exhibition is just a product of wild imagination or a sign of what could become of the future. Will a great council try and control what goes on in our minds (the cell)? But to do this, they would need to get hold of technology themselves rather than destroy it, because without it, their strategies would be ineffective.
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