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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by thatcat on Thursday November 09, 2017 @07:37AM (#15661865)
>You undergo memory treatment, and now your mother who you see once a week is real as far as you know, but really she's an actor

Sounds like a sort of reverse Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; things could get really awkward and confusing when you end up having partial memories.

But also, possibly a brilliant way to fund nursing homes/increase visitation.

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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by malloryerik on Thursday November 09, 2017 @05:25PM (#15666323)
Yes, I was thinking that this should be a Charlie Kaufman movie, or that it's like a Charlie Kaufman movie come to life.

And it's like the opposite of Darth Vader. "Luke, I'm not you true father, I'm a member of the Family Romance corporation."

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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by microcolonel on Thursday November 09, 2017 @09:12AM (#15662484)
> things could get really awkward and confusing when you end up having partial memories.

All memories are partial.

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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by megous on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:22AM (#15663109)
Memories are modified on retrieval and colored by current emotional state and ideas (and vice versa :)). So they're not even partial. They're messy re-imaginations of past re-imaginations.
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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by woodrowbarlow on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:39AM (#15663271)
read-modify-write
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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by thanatropism on Friday November 10, 2017 @08:43AM (#15669792)
Look up the movie _Synecdoche_, where a theater production about the producing of a theater production (about... (about... )...) starts recursively eating real life.
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