Obliviate and emotion

kneazlecat54 12newmoons at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 16:59:58 UTC 2009


No: HPFGUIDX 187278

I haven't posted here for a while, but I'm doing my annual rereading and a question occurred to me.  When Aunt Marge is deflated and her memory is modified, do you think she has any emotional memory of the event?  That is, erasing the facts of a event is one thing, but erasing the feelings that event produced may be something else.  We sometimes have residual feelings left from an experience of which we have no conscious memory, right?  For instance, we may have a strong dislike or liking for a food or a garment or a piece of music because it's associated in our minds with something that happened when we were eating or wearing or hearing it.  

Thanks for your thoughts!

Laura





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