Premise
What if we could edit the mind?
A premise in which memory, personality, or perception can be implanted, erased, or engineered.
What if we could edit the mind? in fiction: 8 works
An experimental surgery raises Charlie's intelligence, then fails, the story's core hypothesis.
A company implants false memories of a Mars trip, the premise's engine.
George Orr's 'effective dreams' rewrite reality itself, the book's premise.
A memory-implant vacation triggers a crisis of which of the hero's memories are real.
A company erases painful memories of a relationship, the film's premise.
Thieves enter dreams to steal and plant ideas, the film's premise.
A technology that lets people relive and change memories rewrites reality itself.
A procedure splits workers' memories between office and home selves, the show's premise.
More premises
- What if machines could think?
- What if we could travel through time?
- What if we met an alien intelligence?
- What if we could create life?
- What if reality were a simulation?
- What if we could live forever?
- What if civilization collapsed?
- What if the state controlled everything?
- What if we could engineer humanity?
- What if we settled other worlds?
- What if history had gone differently?