Forgetful and Human: Why I’m Wary of Brain Chips for Memory Boosts

As I'm getting older my memory is on a decline like I can't remember a lot of things and sometimes I miss doing important stuff because of my memory.

It happened to me once when I missed my final exam cause I forgot about it and there are a lot of people who can relate with having a bad memory.

Even though I'm such an overthinker who'll keep on thinking about something and I do remember things from past 10 years like it happened the last day

But still we're human and missing out on something important because of memory isn't such a big deal.

Getting a chip in brain for better memory

I've been hearing about brain chips that Elon musk is working on from couple of years and I believe it'll become a reality soon where people will be walking with us and they'll have chips ingrained into their brain.

How cool or scary it'd be? There's a lot of concerns like what if they integrate that chip in such a way where we're easily manipulated by them to do whatever we're told

Or what if government keeps information through those chips? It could go wrong in a lot of ways

But one thing I remember particularly is from a series "black mirror" where there was a dedicated episode on this topic.

they had chip in their brain

I kinda enjoyed that episode where everyone had chip integrated into brain and was able to recall a specific memory from mind and play a video on TV

Like you can see the exact memory from 5 years ago and play it like a movie

It went wrong and ruined their relationship man was left all alone, lost kid and wife cause he was in doubt and he beat the hell of that guy who she cheated with

It was kinda dark and there's a lot of black mirror episode that shows how bad it could be if we have brain chips.

I'd never even if I remember nothing

It's a blessing to forget things and a bad memory cause you don't have to remember everything that goes around you all the time

You miss on events, tasks and it's fine cause that's what makes us human

There are natural ways to get a sharp memory like crack those nuts and almonds, eat em every morning before breakfast with milk and see the improvement happening in real-time.

Sometimes I do want to erase some of my memories cause it's always make you regret about something

But that's also a part of our life and we can't separate it from us

You should watch eternal sunshine of spotless minds if you have these thoughts of erasing memories, you'd never wish for it after watching this movie

And if you're interested in getting a brain chip somewhere in future than go watch black mirror.

That's all for now, would love to know what's your thoughts about it in the comments.

fin.