How Scientifically Accurate Is Severance?

Starting point Dan Erickson’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Series “Severance” is new and fascinating. The protagonists of the exhibition operate for mysterious companies, called Lumon, who have complemented a new kind of brain implant that offers their employees a complete work/private balance. As Lumon’s employees drive a lift to their office, their brain computer chip activates and removes all the memories from the outside world. When they are in the office they only know the office. Then, when they leave the building at 5pm, the chip turns backwards, returning memories from the outside world, but suppressing all the memories of their working days.

Another wrinkle: Lumon is so enigmatic and secretive that they do not allow their office workers to know anything about themselves or their “outfits”. To maintain loyalty, “inn” are told fantastic stories about their “exits” that are certainly not true. What does Lumon do? Why do they play these strange memory games with their employees? The mysteries of the “consequence” are enormous and deep and have been studied through the two existing seasons of the exhibition.

The questions are immediately attractive, and “separately” has become the most united exhibition in Apple TV+ history because of its starting point and its surreal mysteries (why does enchant grow goats?). Another question also raised: Is it even possible? Is there a way in a person’s brain to “turn off” memories that do not involve the trauma of boring force? Is there a way to include a person’s entire personality and replace it with Tabula Rasa just to restore this personality later?

Conversation people have studied it a little.

The discussion article found that a certain type of epileptic segregation, a pioneer in the 1940s, literally led to the patient to cut the patient to the non -attached half. After surgery, patients’ separated brain halves were then able to process information independently. This did not mean that patients necessarily developed two separate personalities with two separate memory sets, but it meant that such a thing could be possible. Indeed, Some studies of “shared brain” phenomenon In the 1970s, people who turned between two memorials began to emerge. Of course, these studies investigated what happened when both contradictory halves of a divided cerebral patient were active at the same time. One “half” would answer with speech, while the other responded in writing and the answers were different.

The discussion article goes deep into certain case studies, and the details are fascinating, but it is not exactly what we prove about “disagreement”. In real life, Jaet-brains can remember certain things in their reading and writing, but when talking about other things. The left brain doesn’t know what the right hand does so to talk about.

Instead, the “isolation” procedure may be artificially tapping on the brain’s hippocampus to start the distribution effect, but this time all reading and writing skills are left intact in both halves of the brain. As we all remember from high school biology, Hippocampus is a part of the brain that divides the memories of the day into easy -to -understand “episodes”. Quibis if you want. You can forget about small details from Quib to Quib, but you always remember the whole arc of the day.

When you enter a new room, the new Quibi begins, and your brain “forgets” what happened in the previous episode when it records a new one. The “consequence” brain chips may well prolong the forgettability, allowing Lumon’s employee to forget everything that came before they entered the elevator. The fantastic element of the “consequence” chips is that they also seem to work in a different way, removing the working day when you leave the office … and then return the first crowd. The interaction of the hippie campus does not work in this way, and the “separated” brain cannot be “cut back” as such. When you look at Quib, it’s permanent.

There are also new memories and skills acquired in “isolation” “Innies”. The protagonists (Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry and John Turturro) work in the “Macrodata -Great Regulation” section, a skill that they do not know in their external life. They all know about Lumon’s rituals and history inside. The hippocampus may reset every time you get into the room, but the skills acquired and longer -term memories would stay. The “club” brain chips clearly do something more than sharing the two halves of the brain.

In addition, it is well established in the whole “divorce” that brain chips are not dependent on walking through the doors or in Lumon’s offices. Lumon leaders really have the ability to turn the chips on and off, allowing the “inn” to walk outside and vice versa. So this is a lot more going on than quibi in the brain. The chips turn back and forth between two memoirs, which are alternately suppressed. Because “inn” and “exit” have different memories and skills, they have different personalities. And this, we have to admit, is science fiction.

But very good science fiction. Season 3 is coming. Get a hype.