Memories on a Chip Options

[kryton]

I'm contemplating adding a data jack mod for a game I'm writing an adventure I started thinking about memory in the 2070’s. Something that would allow the data jack to access long term memories stored. I'm not sure there's precedence yet for there. You can access internal memory but not the wetwared brain gray matter. Additionally from what I read in the cannon companion simsense is more of a full sensory movie rather than memories.

What would happen A. if you could sell your memories and B. what if you could buy them and have them implanted via your datajack and an essence modded jack? With the reprogramming techniques you could literally pay to have memories erased, and then pay to have pleasant false memories written in. Of course the faces will be off but there's a certain "pleasure" to nostalgia.

This comes from Blade Runner, Final Cut, Nirvana (Italian film), Twilight zone (1985), and the Eternal Sun Shine of a spotless mind.

As long as the memory was stored in say memory or on a chip via a chipjack you can access and recall the memory? Maybe you could even send your parents memories of your childhood? (Possibly with a little editing you could have your parents edited into a purchased memory?)

The philosophical question being when you loose those memories you have do you loose a part of yourself? IE good and bad memories are who and what we are? Without those we loose something internal to ourselves. There's a certain existential quality to memory....Any thoughts on this conundrum?