Could You Implant Memories Into a Blade Runner Replicant? | Because Science

[ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 10/5/2017]
If you wanted to create the perfect replicant like in Blade Runner, giving them human memories would be necessary, but is it possible? Kyle racks his brain - and implants memories in yours! - on this episode of Because Science, now airing for the first time on the Because Science Channel.

[@barryallen2240]

This is a repost kyle left because science. he runs a new channel called kyle hill. For anyone who didn't know

[@P0HTAT0]

For a long time I remembered a either a dream or a childhood memory for quite a while about being in a mall that I have never ben in. Until about 2 years ago I saw the exact scene in a movie from the late 80's but had memorized it as a personal memory but was not something that I had gone threw myself. The Brain is strange

[@nathanchase1297]

I've definitely done that. So weird!

[@redleg1376]

I think you could do this with adding images, sounds and smells while the replicant is "gestating". Flashes of lights, smells added that match the story you are telling them, sounds that match the memory you are attempting to implant. If you use light, sound, and smell in an incipient conscious state of the replicant; and then you ask them about their memory of the event (while adding subtle detail with your questions), the memory of the sounds and smells would fill in the details of the fake memory.

[@alphadragonn3685]

It took me 5 minutes and 10 seconds to realize that this was a Because Science video and not a Kyle Hill video

[@nevillebowman8419]

Memory implantation has been done many times, especially by well intentioned counsellors trying to "help" potential abuse victims. There have been many court cases over it. A study at UBC in BC a few years ago proved how easy it is to do, frighteningly easy.

[@TheRealDyscyples]

Please post the studies

[@cobanus2862]

Sure..

[@jeromemalsawmsanga8057]

I was thinking what kind of content BS would make without Kyle and turns out they just gonna upload old videos of Kyle from Nerdist

[@jim1550]

Better than those boring videos that just have text and weird music.

[@AnthonyGerdes]

wait kyle is gone? what happened to him?

[@jim1550]

@@AnthonyGerdes His memories got replaced. He is no longer Kyle.

[@SarcasticData]

Wow, it's almost as if they were an employer who owns the right to show his work that was created during the time of his employment. Like every other company in the world.

[@jeromemalsawmsanga8057]

@@AnthonyGerdes he didn't explain everything. He left because science and now has his own channel named Kyle Hill

[@youtheend0114]

I love the fact that our bring up incident happened in our childhood. At first we doubt it because we can't really remember it. But then they keep bringing it up until we can clearly picturize the incident in our head. But I trust my parents tho

[@atryan1125]

Ryan Gosling acting is subtle, and he pulls this off

[@pedrotalons1422]

Wait.... isn't this an old video? I literally watched it yesterday!

[@jun5836]

Hi if you don't know Kyle has left Nerdist* and formed his own channel, it's called 'Kyle Hill'. There will no longer be new videos hosted by Kyle on this channel. Cheers

[@pedrotalons1422]

@@jun5836 i knew that, but are they actually reposting videos now?

[@jun5836]

@@pedrotalons1422 Yes mate, videos from the Nerdist channel to this channel. Do not expect them to have any backlog of videos with Kyle hosting. Cheers

[@JasonWW2000]

@@pedrotalons1422 They have been reposting since Kyle left. It's not new.

[@andrewholaway4113]

@@pedrotalons1422 Yeah they've been reposting since the week he left. No new content here, except the occasional no-voice or Dr. Moo-narrated animations. It's really disappointing. I'd rather them go radio silent than continue to repost old stuff or put out new stuff that isn't even good.

[@thebus_tycoon5099]

Ahhh the good all days...

[@chowdown]

5:15 I remembered them as "Berenstein", but never whatever this "Berensteen" pronunciation is that he just gave.

[@LPFlacko]

Hey Kyle, i love all of the stuff you do on this platform you're awesome. i was just wondering if you could do some calculations about how much the red death from the first how to train your dragon movie weighs. the wiki says that its supposed to be 400 feet long and yet it only lists the weight of the behemoth at only 10 tons which i find...hard to believe. anyways your videos are amazing keep it up.

[@anton10.04]

Hey I would love to see an episode with the topic: "How strong is Might guys kick, when he used night guy."

[@cristianleciu6341]

A love the large amount of references that this video has

[@3ATIVE]

0:29 - That's the wrong scene. Deckard gets told about the replicant's implanted memories by Tyrell earlier. It's right after Rachel's Voight-Kampff test. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4izqoWJireMfLM

[@EmceeGraffiti]

I appreciate your replicant eyes.

[@vitoru1000]

The next video should be about erasing memory, aka neuralizer of MIB

[@barryallen2240]

They can't kyle hill got kicked out he now has his own channel, kyle hill,

[@kush2319]

@@barryallen2240 actually he left, he wasn't kicked

[@barryallen2240]

Well we don't know for sure, but you are probably right

[@doviklausner7947]

I was wondering if you tried implanting some false memories in the video (for a second when you said “why it’s so rainy in the future” plus the rain sound effects, I thought you’d ask if we remember seeing any rain drops in the video. But then I rewatched that part again and saw those rain drops effect...)

[@Thorou]

Joke's on you, i don't even remember what I did yesterday most of the time!

[@mizu-san2712]

Is no one gonna talk about how his iris change at 5:50 ?

[@derbeeee2730]

this dude is just a cool science teacher

[@omarperez66698]

Hey a have a nice question about iron man suit , at the end of avengers 1 , his suit would protect him into the space?

[@Merlmabase]

I don't know how often you still get these but goddamn the world needs Muskwatch like never before

[@silversonic1]

I never got lost at the mall. My parents didn't always remember I got distracted by cool toys. I knew exactly where I was.

[@williamwinder3466]

Who remembers when Kyle dyed his hair red

[@jacksonyoung6245]

Could you do a video on the science of Firestorm, the DC Superhero

[@PinkProgram]

Homunculi work sorta like that... an Inception Kernel is a self referencing neural feedback loop that creates a personality core. Homunculi with the same IK are effectively the same entity spread over multiple bodies.

[@s.u.n.t.a.n6573]

Love the owl reference

[@INFINITESYKOSIS]

Its true..I implanted some memories in one of my clones & now he thinks hes the original one...poor guy 😞

[@cioplasmmajic8327]

When a little less than a third of people are suggestable to false memories, I don't know if you can say that it speaks about humanity as a whole. It seems the simpler, but more boring, explanation is that it's something about the specific people who accepted the false memories.

[@majnabunny]

I actually did my dissertation for a fine art degree using Elizabeth loftus's research as a reference of real world mental manipulation, the whole dissertation was about how the arts were exploring the effects of possible future technologies on the mind and body and how in mass appeal and ease of comprehension of the narrative arts such as films comics theatre etc had a distinct advantage over the more difficult to understand fine arts painting sculpture performance etc in both exploring and explaining the concepts. After a little preamble of real world examples citing loftus's research alongside others such as the MK ultra debacle, I explained that the narratives were not only easier to digest as nearly any one can watch TV or read a book as long as it has sufficient entertainment value to them but also had the benefit of character empathy, humans naturally empathise with characters they try to think how this person would feel and react to what was happening such as false memory implantation or erasure, where as an Artistically rendered philosophical/scientific concept would without either familiarity with the concepts or the artist not hold that same visceral reaction provided through empathy. For example false memories and memory erasure, in various depictions of the ghost in the shell franchise their is a scene where they are confronting a man with what he thought he was doing versus what he was actually doing (and yes i think the anime did it leagues better than the film with Scarlet Johansson) in short he was duped through neural hacking into a government interpreter but thought he was actually trying to hack into his wife ill just leave a link to the scene on KZbin .... kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYmZppuLZbSLlcU When you try to describe the same situation without including the charterers or even any narrative at all it collapses into a selection of ideas and concepts typically the purview of scientists philosophers and... bored art students, to use a food analogy it all becomes very dry and lacks the same entertainment factor to help you mull it over. Were hardwired for stories they're a key part of a whole plethora of educational methods,.... that and unless the artwork is sufficiently visceral (yes im looking at you Giger) we don't have the emotional impetus to care about something and that's a shame because some great ideas get left because no one makes a story out of them :)

[@lolibear]

thats a really good point and i agree with you

[@spikeforce]

I miss kyle... oh wait I can just go to his new channel at Kyle Hill 😂👍

[@shibolinemress8913]

That's why I kick myself for not having journalled regularly throughout my life. As I grow older, I realise that it's not so much a matter of having interesting things to write about, but rather of keeping a clear record of my important memories, to help stave off forgetfulness, subconscious falsification, dementia, etc.

[@DieselsVideos]

It think even after your explanation the answer is "No!" All memories you talked about are implanted in people who i.e. have seen several malls several times. have memories of beeing there with their parents, and so on. Meybe they get lost somewhere or have seen a movie where a child get lost. So they have something to build the "lost in mall" memory on. A replicant just remembers "beeng there and have someone talking to them." the replicant would have nothing to base the "lost in mall memory on but has memories about waking up and got stories told. No... He even has no memory about word. so the memory on how to interpret the whole babble from the person and what a school is too. And it must be implanted in a way that the replicant can not just remember somehow how words work and remember some like in a foreign language test. The replicants memory must be strong and precise enough for a fluid conversation.

[@thalastianjorus]

Concerning the Bernstein Bears Mandela Effect... I have an early book report that I did in 2nd grade _(my grandmother kept everything)_ that spells it STEIN in the title, and in the report seven times. I had the book there infront of me while writing it, no knowing anyone named anything similar, and I had zero access to an internet that basically did not exist in the 80s. So...

[@nicholashorton5566]

The most recent upload list reads like someone trying to figure out immortality.

[@LiamRappaport]

There has been some research done on implanting memories in mice (literally implanting, not just convincing them like described in this video). Look it up, it’s interesting.

[@barknock7164]

I saw the title, and thought of Nier: Replicant for a moment

[@Hacky4675]

Title checks out

[@joshobeirne81]

Could you please make a video about bioshock and its plasmids please thank you.

[@barryallen2240]

Still can't do to him being not with B. S.

[@nawwk79]

More Human than Human - Rob Zombie

[@gregbush8573]

the problem with speaking out and implanting into replicants like you describe, they would first need to have the accessory memories that we as humans growing up normally inherently have, you can't imagine the scene of being lost in the mall if you can't envision a mall, or an old man, or your mother, not to mention the emotional effect that human could have from another time being lost that would imprint that into their memories.

[@gabemesa3921]

Nero plasticity is both amazing and terrifying to me.

[@yanjiekoo6894]

Can someone help me figure something out, in avengers endgame they talk about the theory of time travel and stuff where your formal present is now the past and when you travel to the past it becomes your new future right? So what if you travel to another space but in the same time like would that just be teleportation or is there some kinda delay or what? If there isn't then wouldn't they have invented time travel and teleportation?

[@chainyrabbit]

I actually did get lost in the Co-OP once and an old man took me to security

[@landryprichard6778]

I could have sworn that I watched this video as a kid...in a mall...lost. What, pray tell, is this new devilry?

[@Crazymachin3gun]

U made this whole video about other people implanting memories into people when I don't need other people to change my memories. My brain plays games when I am awake telling me that the dream I dreamt was already dreamt about

[@zach8596]

here's a question. knowing what you do about Superman such as his biggest feat of strength and maximum speed. If Superman pushed his hands flat together as hard as he could, and rubbed them back and forth as fast as he could. How much heat could he potentially generate with the friction?

[@TheKingOfN0thing]

“My boy, you WEREN’T a SOLDIER...”

[@Dumbcrane]

"Why is the future so wet!?" because in the future we created Atmospheric Processors, which it regularly rains, since rainstorms repair the ozone layer.

[@SaleemKhan-ts3xk]

Hey bro, I can't understand molecular structure of DNA and cell division can you make a video on it.

[@barryallen2240]

No he can't he got removed from because science

[@blazeredraw]

ngl, that's a good owl

[@grahamaustin3049]

3:14 i see or understand what ya doing about those spiders and the ones out side my window are friends ;) ;)

[@DDRthunderking]

i know that this post is probably never going to be red but i would love for BS to cover some of the feats in baki the grappler, like jack punching someone so hard he lifted not only himself but the whole phone booth he is in

[@monomanamaniac]

Sinbad DID make a genie movie though. He admitted to it I even had a vhs copy of it up till a couple years ago

[@caveman_casey]

It’s not Sinbad’s Shazam, it’s Shaq’s Kazaam

[@caveman_casey]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHKccqd-n6-rja8

[@davidbouchard5451]

This explains so much about our societies

[@randallvolk8437]

Because Science Video suggestion! How does the 'Oxogen Destroyer' from 'Godzilla The king of The Monsters' actually work? Can science explain it?

[@tjgrembowski]

Some of ya'll have never been lost in the mall and it shows.

[@zenkim6709]

For additional & greater insight into the true nature of human memory, read books like "The Connoisseur's Guide to The Mind" (which is by no means the most authoritative book on the subject, but is probably the most entertaining).

[@attractspsychos]

I think all of Mandela effects are true. When they fired up the LHC it created a new time line and things changed.

[@kjs8719]

I've noticed false or distorted memories in other people guitar a few times. It would be fascinating to find out how many of my memories are wrong 🤔

[@SS-zf6hf]

Please do an episode on Stark nanotechnology

[@barryallen2240]

He can't he has a new channel, Kyle hill

[@vonneely1977]

"That's all it is: information. Even a simulated experience or a dream is simultaneous reality and fantasy. Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."

[@user-rg4pt1mw2u]

That's not false memory, I distinctly remember the "Berestien" bears even though that wasn't my childhood I was a captain underpants kid

[@Mymloch]

"These aren't truths from another dimension... that's stupid". Hilarious!

[@silversonic1]

This episode was hosted by a Kyle replicant, but he since realized and disappeared.

[@evanbruneio6208]

The numbers Mason

[@michaelofficer1331]

My opinion might be unpopular, but I like this channel, considerable more, than his other venture.

[@mugwump7049]

It's a different flavor but still Kyle, and both are good IMHO. I'm just sad this one went "out of production", but I'm still hoping they find his successor soon.

[@timmyguy3991]

Dude you have amazing hair

[@qinugimachi87]

Dunno if anyone noticed this but when Kyle blinks at 5:46, his eyes changed a bit. :P

[@rokit0402]

I never got lost in a mall I was too good at looking in the mall

[@DNAnime01]

My parents forgot they'd brought my brother and I to the mall and didn't remember until they got home lol

[@geoffreyfletcher6976]

False memories have been proven to occur during police interrogations, where the suspect is impressionable enough to confess to details about crimes that they didn't actually commit.

[@callmeedwin_8492]

Did anyone notice his eyes turning yellow in 2 parts of the video

[@nobirdsnomasters]

7:14, clever

[@NeoTechni]

The Replicants would be programmed to accept the memories, even as a text file

[@liamcooper1487]

I'm not going crazy his eyes keep changing cooler from brown red and yellow

[@stuyant4979]

4:12 Mentions getting out of rain for a second time when there wasn't any and it's a video about implanted memories? I wonder if whatever he's doing still works when you notice something.

[@bernat_CustardCream]

1:20 I think what you are trying is gaslighting, sir/madam

[@luxambience2787]

Wow that actually seems real... even though I’m pretty sure that I have never been lost in a mall.

[@ephemera2]

I don't remember Sinbad making a genie movie that was Shaquille O'Neal's and it was called Shazam

[@Tej132]

I just watched Blade runner today 😅😅

[@shadowcloudspher5149]

Wow sweet!

[@jedimasterbryanb]

can i ask for this team to d o a why you whould no want pyrokinesis please

[@darkcanopy8568]

okay this made me question my life and my self

[@ererasthethinker5067]

Can't hit me with that lost in the mall story. Advantages of no't living in a city

[@amtidwell4365]

Can you do an episode about if Power rangers in space could work in reality?

[@lowesgameing2003]

Why is it raining

[@himesilva]

Okay, then what happens to traumatic memories if they're not suppressed? My memory has a black spot in it from an event that there's a police report about (i.e it happened and was not something you would normally forget)

[@classifiedveteran9879]

I've known that human minds are very poor at recalling experiences, and on top of that our fallible perception can get things very wrong from the start. (Optical illusions aren't actually illusions, it's our brain's incompetence.) We're good at remembering skills and knowledge through repetition, but that's because you repeat the training until your brain gets it. When a car accident or violent crime happens there is no replay button. I was aware of this throughout many mishaps and unfortunate instances in my time in the military and knew just after a legally significant event occurs that you write down everything that is relevant as soon as possible. Every minute that passes by key details can be lost, or worse, incorrect information manufactured in your squishy and organic brain that is nothing like a hard drive. I can spout off a few moments in my military career were this was advantageous -Such as when a NCO in the motor pool hit a private in the back of the head with a pipe because he didn't eat his MRE (army rations) fast enough. -Or when a motor team shot a 60MM HE quick motor that landed less than 100 meters from there own position. -Or when I walked in on two soldiers goofing around with combat knives and a NCO stabbed a specialist in the leg during my deployment. -Or when my whole platoon took fire from a village with women and children intentionally standing in the way, we pulled out without shooting back, and everyone there including the interpreter wrote down a sworn statements of what happened. Also everyone had all there bullets in each magazine counted and weapons checked for carbon fouling to confirm not a single soldier had fired a single shot. (We all got back okay by the way.) I will say one thing, military body cameras might be just as helpful as police body cameras. Basically what I'm saying, if you witness something that's going to involve the police or the school principle, grab a pad of paper and pen and record the time on the incident, the time you start writing, write everything that you know, and then the time that you stopped writing. If a detective sees that you started to write a page of facts and descriptions within minutes of an incident, they'll be very grateful that you made his job so much easier. Best thing to do, if there are multiple witnesses, is to get them all to write everything down without talking or expressing anything to each other to avoid exactly what Kyle Hill was talking about.

[@Spacecookie-]

How common is it to experience a family wedding then? Or, how uncommon is it to never experience that? I've never experienced a family wedding, and have only been to two weddings in my life, neither of them for people I'm close to.

[@izzykidd1]

A literally just watched the OG movie 3 days ago 4 the first time

[@Anonymous-ji7ws]

Kyle can you do an episode on how to fight the Juggernaut and win

[@negativitronprime]

He left and has his own channel

[@Anonymous-ji7ws]

Oh well can you give me a name and il check it out

[@hhgff778]

But I actually got lost in a mall

[@arturm3917]

You can't convince me this isn't Mark Rober with a wig

[@nonyabissniss7526]

Yes, Kyle, Ryan Gosling showing no emotions was the point of his role... Remember the 'improved Voight Kampff test'? That's the new test, testing replicants ability to subdue emotions. His personal arc is about missing his emotions. That's why he has his ai girlfriend, to learn love...

[@Wingdnadlla]

Can you talk about how GN drives work from gundam 00

[@JasonWW2000]

What! Your still asking after all these months? Kyle is not working here anymore so he won't see your question. You need to go to his new channel called Kyle Hill. You can even join his patreon where you can get questions answered either by him or by the other geeky patrons like matterbeam. This channel is mostly doing repeats or maybe simple new episodes with text and voice overs by Dr. Moo.

[@nickarmstrong477]

Is no one gonna talk about his eyes randomly turning yellow.

[@Smokziie]

This did nothing but made my anxiety grow wondering if half my life is fake.... Because science😐

[@ErzengelDesLichtes]

It’s weird having Thor talk about Blade Runner...

[@jonnoallison]

Eyes did a weird thing at 07:13 ...

[@chiefgee]

They did something like this in the Bloodshot

[@redleg1376]

I thought that was a really interesting twist actually. I knew already who the bad guy would end up being but how they were shown to be the bad guy was a good twist.