dont know if this has been said. but from the movie seems like zoe only records what the person sees, says and hears.
what about their thoughts?
Defective chips do record daydreams, thoughts and hallucinations.
shareNo, they don't record thoughts and feelings and this is what put me off the premise.
If this simple video function were possible in real life, what exactly would it achieve?
It could help solve crimes, although only after a person was dead.
But the world we live in right now; where people can record their thoughts and feelings in journals and on blogs (and message boards!), tell their loved ones much more information of who they actually are, than mere pictures and sounds.
The last part of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror 3 part series also had a type of implant that recorded people's days 24/7. But they could rewind an event that happened earlier and even show it to others on a holographic screen.
But that too did not address the most useful and obvious use of such a device in my opinion: crime prevention/detection or alibi production.
Both Black Mirror and Final Cut made more of an issue of the moral implications of such a device, rather than the amazing uses that could be gained from it, which IMO made the stories a lot less strong.
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But I suppose they had to have the Zoe implants only retrievable after death in order to put Alan's life in danger.
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If this simple video function were possible in real life, what exactly would it achieve?
No. I think it records what they see and hear as they go through their lives. It is also an objective record of their lives. That's what makes the two version of one's memory make sense.
Its like planting a security camera that records images and sounds into one's brain. When the chip malfunctions occasionally, it records hallucinations and daydreams, but not real thoughts and mental pictures.