HRogge Wrote:The odds are that the basic Catgirling Machine doesn't do memory manipulation. But, if you can record the entire memory as it flows through the machine you can probably substitute a recorded set of memories for the ones of the person being cat-girled, and if you want to then record their memories as well. I suspect the original Boskone researchers put at least one catgirl through the Machine more than once, if nothing else to see what happened. Then, maybe tried it again, with a time delay for 'recovery', if the first one died.robkelk Wrote:Ooh! I hadn't thought about that, but it does explain why **WHITENOISE** **WHITENOISE** **WHITENOISE** **WHITENOISE** **WHITENOISE** rather elegantly.If the catgirling machine contains some memory manipulation tech (in addition to the typical Boskone memory wike), it might be discovered in Season 2... CI had spent a lot of time (like many other Fen) with the catgirling machine... and they also accumulate experience with memory manipulation during their work with Quattros tech.
You might wonder if Boskone ever shoved more or less fresh corpses through the Catgirling Machine, just to see what happened...
Wiping someone's memories is... messy. If you just wipe everything then you've got an adult catgirl with the skills and experiences of an infant. And, they may not be able to relearn any useful skills without a great deal of work.
There is some evidence that the human mind handles memories of skills and of personal history differently, so you might be able to keep the skills (including such things as toilet training, walking, and speaking) while blocking the catgirl from knowing their history. If you can insert a filter that does this then the personal history is lost permanently, unless you bother to record it (or, unless you believe this is somehow recorded in the soul).
If a cache of personal memories of mind wiped catgirls is discovered, maybe "kept for research", then it might be possible to restore lost memories using a very slightly modified Catgirling Machine. If the Boskone were generous it might even be reasonably easy to match-up catgirls with their recordings (they might have bothered to do this as it might help their later research), maybe with a DNA tag or something.
You might be able to induce the sort of effect that causes IRL traumatic amnesia, but that is likely more tricky, and memory might return later. This might involve drugs; some sort of cannabinoid in the modding mix?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid
Boskone likely don't do this if they have a more sophisticated mind wipe.
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