Could You Implant Memories Into a Blade Runner Replicant?? (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)

[@Nerdist]

Would the "Voight-Kampff test" really detect replicants? NEW mini-ep over on my Insta: instagram.com/sci_phile/ Thanks for watching! -- KH

[@chasekaseli2777]

Nerdist I love you guys

[@karlsingh9076]

Nerdist I am loving your videos Kyle. I need to watch the Blade Runner movie series

[@kylo-juju3796]

*mindblow*

[@nemanjacabarkapalordozunu]

Make vide that will show to all why is bruce lee stronegest fighter ever.

[@1337JohnDoe]

Kile u r a replicant, the real Kile die in car accident almost 10 years ago. 😉

[@nattywoo475]

Not only does this allow for implanted memories, but it allows for completely different perceptions of actual events. Two people can witness the same event but remember totally different events.

[@Nerdist]

Definitely. There's a great episode of TNG about this -- KH

[@DarkZholt]

In any event witnessed by two people there are three versions of the event. 1- The version remembered by the first one. 2- The version remembered by the second one. 3- The true event. Our memories are not very reliable.

[@rmsgrey]

You forgot the fourth one - the version reported in the papers...

[@lamajigmeg]

great reference to Rutger's "tears in the rain" monologue

[@Nerdist]

Boom -- KH

[@ottopike737]

why does this comment have no date on it?

[@GunslingerBahamut]

@Nerdist I find another thing happens in some that have suffered mental trauma of some kind. Because of a car accident when I was 14, I lost almost all memory of my childhood. Every since, I have had people tell me about things that have happened, but over the last handful of years, I have come to question most of it, whether its my own imagination filling in gaps using what they said, or its fragments of my actual memory.

[@kingseyes6932]

Can the flash out run his shadow?

[@rewrose2838]

Imma wait very patiently for the fated day when Kyle signs an episode off and then mentions how his hair's actually an amalgamation of the hair of all his victims~

[@thebananamonk]

Rew Rose Analgation?

[@Good_Hot_Chocolate]

Memes and Hearthstone amalgamation means a combination of stuff (similar to each other or different). It usually has a negative connotation (at least in my experience).

[@anevilscientist]

lol'ed at "Also, sorry"

[@thebananamonk]

Ok and what about a device that can use electrical impulses to read the neuron patterns that we store as memories and to alter those patterns into other logical patterns that we can perceive as a different memory (a false one) and not as a blank ( aka amnesia). would such a device be possible?

[@darknightgaming5716]

Me And Hearthstone That's what I was thinking.

[@darknightgaming5716]

It would probably be possible, but no one thought about it yet. Well that and I think a memory changing device would be illegal.

[@thebananamonk]

there are a few movies and series that have the idea already, like (i think) the matrix, Stargate SG-1 and Rick and Morty. So the concept isnt new but the technology is not apparently available, i say apparently because we don't know what the governments may be hiding

[@101Mant]

Me And Hearthstone memory storage in the brain seems pretty complicated and even if you had some device that could read and alter the connections between the neurons nobody knows how you would need to alter them to change the memory. So firstly you need to access the specific neurons somehow without effecting the the surrounding one (presumably without opening the person's skull) and then you would need to understand what to change. Even the most sophisticated devices we have for reading electrical activity in the brain aren't close to the level of detail you are talking about. Memories don't even stay the same, they move from short to long term storage and every time you remember something you may change that memory. Additionally the human brain is the most complicated known structure in the universe, so I think your suggested device is impossible the current technology and medical knowledge.

[@thebananamonk]

that's exactly why it's so exciting, remember when we didn't think reading brain activity was possible? i think that this is the same. imagine the possibility of such a machine! you could literally learn decades of material in a few seconds! it would drastically improve the effectiveness of education!

[@Raptor44256]

Convincing your girlfriend she’s crazy is called gaslighting and it’s a dick move. Convincing her that she’s a robot is called blade running and it’s a Phillip k. Dick move.

[@aapayson]

Well said, sir.

[@MRENGLANDMAN66]

When i saw his eye change colour around the 5:50 mark. I got really excited! Got to love the reference.

[@passthebutterrobot2600]

Do Musks dream of electric cars?

[@sXewriter1]

I wonder how often in our world's history people of authority have convinced people they've committed crimes they have never done.

[@goombie8962]

Every time you remember something, you are remembering the last time you remembered it. So if you remember it wrong or remember false details, they will infect future memories. This is why when you watch footage of an event you experienced, it might seem wrong. After seeing that footage your memories might be corrected. I'm pretty sure I got this from somewhere reputable, can't remember.

[@jacquelinejoyner9342]

Loved the explanation that connected the puzzle pieces of our memory to the mendela affect. Captain disillusion mentioned these too, I guess that's why your eye color kept changing. I think kit- cat clocks and kit Kat bars where mixing up in our brains. Shaman super hero, madam movie, and Sinbad in Arabian nights not the one in " jingle all the way" mixed us up too coming up with a false memory.

[@XnecromungerX]

6:03 decades of research like tears in the rain

[@slagondrayer447]

FunHaus recently discussed this, we all think the movie Congo had a scene where Amy or one of the evil gorillas used the laser gun, but that never happens in the movie.

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

So many beautiful references from the movie. Liked the rain...and specially "like tears..." part. At 4:02 that's detail from Deckard's apartment, right? (kitchen i believe) :)

[@Atm_0s]

Imagination and memory are but one thing, which for diverse considerations have diverse names.

[@tntfx2657]

Your brain definitely suppresses memories my great-grandfather fought in WWII and always believed that he hadn’t killed anyone but on his death bed he remembered that he had killed a group of enemy soldiers when on patrol.

[@Zathaghil]

"Deckerds of research..." Hurr hurr... 7:23 Yeah I know it's "Decades" but still... :p

[@youtubevoice1050]

Haven't seen the movie yet, but in regards to Ryan's neutral face expression there's this technique/ concept in film (forgot the name) where the very same neutral face expression will be interpreted differently by the audience, depending on context (i.e. follow up shots or music). Maybe that's what's going on? Or might he be....

[@dcparodies1977]

Love YOUR videos. You explain really well

[@Nerdist]

Thank you so much! -- KH

[@Syroderick]

Best pick up line ever. 'Like my owl?'

[@myflippinggoodness8821]

Gosling was BORN for that role 👌

[@tristragyopsie5464]

first time I realised this was true I was at a job and after doing something (can't remember what) I said to a coworker "insert maniacal laughter here." A few weeks later the conversation came up again, and she remembered me laughing like a supervillian. Our brains are horible narrators.

[@vindictotentoria8102]

I literally had a dream about false memory. I remember that I was walking around an castle with a group of friends that I never had, than a time skip to me being at the farm meeting a chick that has a secret crush on me, but when I woke up I had nostalgic tears in my eyes. I don't remember any of those events, and also I couldn't pick those memories from a TV Show cause back then I was watching CN and DisneyXD. None of the shows from CN and DisneyXD corresponded with my dream. And those were the only shows I watched on TV. EVER!

[@synthetic221]

All the episodes of because science that I have watched this one has probably terrified me the most.

[@unicornspoon]

I did get lost in a supermarket once but I just went to the tech demo installation and sat there screwing around with a gadget until my mum turned up, I was perfectly chill lol

[@gschneyer]

However, there's one key fact that I'm not sure has been addressed. Take the mall example, if you ask almost anyone "have you ever been inside a mall", the answer would probably be yes, right? So if you ask that question, the mind would put together that question's image from times that I have been in a mall say. If you were to ask someone who has never been in a mall though, would they be able to draw that detail? For me, "remember when you were lost in the Taj Mahal?" Um, no, I never was there. So I can't create those images. For a Replicant, how can those memories be created if they were never there? This video is quite provocative, it explains "hands up don't shoot". Thanks.

[@dkail08]

gschneyer - obviously for the replicants they do it Clockwork Orange style 😉

[@aliasmask]

Heh, I just made a very similar comment above. But if you knew what a mall was, a large building containing a bunch of store fronts, then you could piece together the memory from its elements. But you'll have to have that base first in any case.

[@argr4sh]

though it is true what you say. you can also think about when you're reading a proper book. often when you read about a scene, especially if it is properly described, you can still make a visual picture in your head of how you think it looks. no matter how sci fi it might be. now if you would take the time to first implement certain core places into their head (which shouldn't be too hard, especially with video) you could very well do something like this.

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

I've never been to the Taj Mahal. But, I can think about being lost in it. I have no clue what it looks like on the inside, but I can image some stuff to put in there. And if you can convince an adult that they almost drowned, I think you could convince a 2 day old Replicant that it had been to the Taj Mahal and gotten lost in it. As long as they know what the Taj Mahal is, they can image being lost there. Even if what they image the inside to be is completely wrong, the brain will correct itself when it finds out what the real inside looks like. I can create for myself a 'memory' of getting lost in the Taj Mahal, imagining stuff on the inside, and if I believed that memory, and then later went there, when I got there, I don't think I'd suddenly realize the memory was fake, I think I'd be like 'Oh, so that's actually over there', as I'd just assume the base memory was correct even if the little details were different.

[@tiagotiagot]

Wasn't there a study involving making people think they've been in a hot air balloon as a kid when they didn't, by photoshoping childhood photos?

[@clovis2012]

Please do a video on how strong replicants are and what their actual strength would be. Like the incredible scenes from the new movie where they're killing in one hit or running through walls.

[@kingalpie4444]

fricken love when he says"YES"

[@Zackrobotheart]

love how Kyle rolled his eyes at HIS OWN PUN at the title card

[@geoff7936]

So interesting! I wonder if the ease by which an individual can be manipulated/incepted correlates to their imaginative capacity and also to their own richness of real memory (i.e. the diversity of events that has happened to them from which their subconscious might draw details and fragments of scenarios to build up a false memory.) Also a person's predisposition to WANT to retain memory (whereas some people are more indifferent) could lead to the subject grasping at false memories purely because the thought (subconscious or not) of forgetting anything is worse than having a few false memories.

[@DepressyDuck]

If you repeat something enough times, you WILL believe it. You can create your own false memories just by repeating it to yourself a lot.

[@argr4sh]

well, there is an actual psychological phenomenon, which says that sometimes humans will replace a traumatic experience with another, made up, experience which would lead to the same result. whilst simultaniously completely repressing the Original, for at least some time.

[@tatsusama3192]

This reminds me of those years where people were reporting their parents for sexual abuse because of therapists telling them they were abused as children

[@EpsilonContinuity]

The Berenstain bears thing was just because the publishers of the books and whatnot didn't spell the names right.

[@MJDHX]

That Ryan Gosling impersonation is the same as every Kristin Stewart character ever.

[@IAMMRPATRICKBORNAGAIN]

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die."

[@logandehaven771]

5:44 his eyes changed colors

[@josephmccafferty4172]

I'm surprised that he didn't even mention how the Synths from Fallout 4 could have been manipulated the same way. But then again, some had REAL people's memories implanted into them too, like Nick Valentine, who was pure Synthetic.

[@koimaxx]

+Nerdist Following this logic, I assume it would actually be possible to create myself an entire memory without any external input. If I reinforce the fabrication long enough, then right now I could be remembering an incident that never really happened? My life has been a lie... sad.

[@BigZBomb]

5:47 his dreamy eyes kept changing they had little brown spots in them... Couldn't tell what they were phone isn't that good.

[@jovanyvaldez3423]

Big Z Bomb HE'S A REPLICANT!!

[@jurij590]

he's one of the lizzard people...

[@TwistedGlitter]

It's both "stein" and "stain" for the bears. One may have been a typo or there may have been a moment when they changed the spelling of the name but both exist.

[@CrimsonTemplar2]

It’s so amusing watching LA people freak out over rain.

[@Nerdist]

I'm from Wisconsin -- KH

[@elliotnicklinmusic]

This is low key fantastic. Great video. I’m convinced

[@tibineagu]

I was seriously expecting a *SURPRISE* Light-umbrella!

[@sithlorddread8721]

8:00 more human than meets the eye

[@NoManLP]

Amazing video as always Kyle. Keep up the good work :) Love watching because Science before head off to work. Always great start to my day.

[@SuggahBear]

Please mark this so Kyle will review this request: Something like "How powerful is Sagat based on how he has to overcompensate for using one eye?"

[@patsin6873]

You can not see the face movements of Rian Gossling as the eyes are too close together - Thats the Huckaby-Sanders Effect

[@SickoMyselfTV]

awesome!!! thanks for kicking so much ass!! be well-M

[@decadentia84]

Damn was the editing and effort into this put into this ever impressive.

[@Lord_Brocktree]

There's a new book coming out called "The Truth About Us" which explores how our brains work. I highly recommend it. I have heard the writer speak on the subject a few times and it is really fascinating.

[@TransGamerNerd27]

This whole memory reconstruction thing begs the question - Does Bruce Wayne really remmeber his parent's death?

[@huntermccaskill3938]

Ture story, I actually did; though it was a lady - I was about to be freaked out until you said man. I was with my family trying to hide like in the clothes racks trying to surprise them. it worked once, maybe twice, but then I waited too long and they were gone. So I jump out yelling surprise to no one and end up a 4 year old wandering the mall aimlessly balling my eyes out. a brown haired lady comes up and offers to help, to which I said "I'm not supposed to talk to strangers". She insisted of course, but I kicked her in the shin and tried to run off. But she did take me back to my family, and here we are 24 years later recounting

[@user-dx8nj7qj2g]

when i was a child, i was known for running off if you so much as looked away from me, so i wouldnt be surprised if i got lost in a mall

[@taostone8065]

Hey Kyle. How does this implanted memory Theory apply to Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist? Specifically I'm talking about the episode where Alphonse is wondering whether or not his memories are his own or just Edwards and he's questioning whether he's an actual person or just a collection of Edwards memories.

[@derchesten]

Dude Ryan gosling is a stone wall in that movie, I mean, he could not emote even to the realization that he may be human... Wtf man

[@ethanm2706]

Can u teach us if hot rods stop the time gun work in real life (transformers 5 the last night

[@slee7863]

The issue I have with this is that the replicants have accelerated growth and truncated childhoods if any which leads to them having to be programmed with memories and behaviors that would imitate people that had a normal life/birth otherwise you'd have a grown ass adult having no foundation to act as an adult or interact with other people cause they'd have to learn that on the fly or in some lab at a super accelerated place which still leave some strange quirks that people can pick up on that something isn't right. Case in point, I'm a grown ass adult and I'm still awkward af but I got years of exp to let me know how to act in certain situations versus some of my rich ass friends who can't handle life outside of their bubbles and they act awkward and have such outlandish exp that they can't relate to my peasant lifestyle or of my peasant friends that people can tell they're rich af. So I can take KH explanation as to how Blade Runners do their job to pinpoint certain known programmed details since once the reps are set into the world they'd undoubtedly start to have slightly varying accounts of those programmed memories depending on the environment and people they interact with but not how they all got those memories to begin with. And if since they're universal and purposely implanted that means they had to have some QA/QC process to ensure that Blade Runners could do their jobs otherwise you'd have some socially awkward adult with splotchy random ass memories which would make it easier for anyone to ID a rep. That's my 2 cents on the matter...

[@Bl4ckD0g]

It’s funny, because I did have a spider living outside my window as a kid. Also I didn’t get lost in a mall, I got lost inside of a Target at the age of 4 and freaked out. This episode now makes me wonder if my life is a lie.

[@Nerdist]

GOOD. EMBRACE THE FEAR. LIVE -- KH

[@fluffycommander]

This is terrifying.

[@richardcavner2095]

"We Don’t See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are" Anaïs Nin

[@thehabit5904]

Did anybody else notice how kyles eyes were different when he said mandela effect at 5:47

[@ShiroNekoDen]

Doctor michiokaku has gone further then suggestion implantation to literal recording memory and implanting it back into the brain.

[@benjaminboyle7329]

A thought about a unicorn is a real thought.

[@erbgorre]

lol, you just made me think of that old german "3 wetter taft" commercial. LA. rain. the hair is still in place - 3 wetter taft. ;D also, i think we now know why harrison punched gosling in the face. just wanted to see if his expression would change, is all -.-

[@MonkeyNBananas]

bruh y u gotta fuck with my brain with the yellow eyes

[@chrishale7480]

I did almost drown but the lifeguard didn’t even notice me. I had to save my own ass.

[@kangaroosekcie]

No, he knows her memory because he read her File. Rachel was unique. She was a prototype and the only one to have implanted memories. The memories of Tyrell's niece

[@rushwal]

Great... now I'm going to remember the time I got lost in the mall...

[@hirobeez]

I don't remember much about the replicant life cycle and identity formation, but isn't the implantation of memories dependable on pre-established knowledge of things by watching movies or everyday tv? Like the lost in the mall experiment, the concept of mall was necessary for it to work, and unles induced by some specifier like images or a name, I suspect every person's memory would be based on a personal repertoire of malls he/she would have seen or walked through. I understand that, at least based on the new movie, the memories are created much more like an artistic real-life fidelity and composed of VR or similar videos and etc, but the verbal language based memory implantation (like I inferred from the explanation for the experiments) is incredibly imprecise and impredictable based on what we know of memory formation. Am I wrong? I guess it is proof that it is possible to create false memories, but I wonder, using a multimedia system and things like trance-like states of mind, how precise can an implanted memory be, and should we be at least a little bit concerned by it?

[@VindirWefent]

Just a thought I wonder if experience and history are required to implant a memory. Take the mall example and tell a adult you were lost in the mall as a child remember... That adult had been to countless malls knows them inside and out and has reference and images to build a fake memory out of. But what about a replicant wouldn't they just be a blank canvas??

[@kingvince7328]

5:45 his eyes turn yellow. #illuminateConfirmed

[@Molloy244]

Can you do a set on the maelstrom from Han Solo a starwars story?

[@two-face1041]

What does the Star Destroyer do to this galaxy....it must effect the orbits of the other planets right?

[@goombie8962]

picked up on those red eyes... didn't get the reference tho, never watched the movie. gotta do that.

[@ordo4276]

Question: How many years would it take to pay for the Nostromo in Alien movie?

[@abrahamarciga3334]

5:52 am i the only one that thinks kyle is subliminally messaging us with this whole video

[@Gabrong]

Kyle: Why the future is so wet?! Girls: Because Harrison Ford!

[@AndyKnudsen]

Oops , you got this one wrong. Rachel's memories come from Tyrell's niece, actually said in the movie.

[@45bullshark]

I never got lost in a mall, I got left at a walmart though, that kinda sucked.

[@ethanjohnson5983]

Look at his eyes at 5:48

[@minorpatch7030]

Nice job drawing voight kampff

[@Seiki52]

Hey Kyle, Would superman be able to pick up a bus from the inside and still be able to fly?

[@dezzlok]

It was the Berenstein Bears but there a Multiverse glitch.

[@blahmcblahblah]

Hehe. "Like my owl?"

[@vicjames3256]

Lol. "Like tears."

[@ItsZorroDood]

I remember being attacked by a wild animal in a mall and almost drowning afterwards.

[@orestismataku4042]

isnt a movie called lost in a mall?(couldnt take iy from my mind)

[@Olympian05]

What about people who have photographic memories or eidetic memories when it comes to this??

[@rjspires]

Thought it was going to about tears lost in the rain.

[@StarshipMelee]

Thor got brains and the brawn! Dig the show!!

[@Damocles54]

I once convinced a neighbor kid that his name was jack. His mother did NOT see the humor. I might have been kind of a dick as a kid lol

[@jlmurphy1289]

What would really happen if Saitama released a serious serious punch.

[@TributeJr]

You covered double jumping, but what about wall jumping

[@gamecommanderswarroom6283]

this is why children make horrible witnesses in criminal cases after they have been 'interviewed' by experts beforehand.

[@mjstory1976]

Awesome video

[@AV-uv9kx]

sure Kyle sure...no Mandela effect ehhh? im on to you buddy!

[@zikfreed2012]

some people can remember all their past and discern the lie that relatives try to tell them