It is not surprising, that questions about how should we make information on internet forgotten, is immediately connected to a technical sollution: to erase information. Oh dear simplicity! Such Mr. or Ms. Simplicity still thinks that human body logic follows coputer technology logic. Ms. Reeding (EU) beleives that since we say that we erase information on computer and that we say, that computer has a memory, that means, that we as human entities in fact erase information in our brains. And thus she intends to formulate a law that would regulate “how to erase memory” with the erasing computer tools. If you have wrong idea about properties of the subject, you are trying to regulate or change, then you most probably chose wrong tools working on.
First we have to stress again, that human memory (for the sake of simplicity we use this world…) is not stored in brains, but is an emergent property of a human body. Following the extended phenotype concept we know, that the body does not end where our fingertips end. We (as individuals) than should take all extended phenotypes like iMachines and computers as in fact parts of our phenotype in such a way, that we locate our memory in those machines as much as in our brains.
Second we have to make clear that memories are not stored in our brains or our bodies like digital bytes are stored in computer chips. Human memory is an emergent property of biological (material) complexity. It comes out of a body, while in comupters information is stored in. Human memory already has both time-space dimension and quantum dimension. It follows both analogue Einstein laws of relativity and has quantum entanglement properties of particles world. It might happen that quantum computing is going to push computing closer to how human being is “being operated”.
Third we have to understand that there is no god, that regulates or govern or administer or observe or… bilological realm. There is no one that can or could log on a global biological tissue and administer properties of this tissue like computer administrator can do within computer tissue. You can in fact erase part of a digital realm like surgeon can cut of a part of our physical body (including brains), but that does only partly reshuffle biological or digital tissue, but does not erase memory in neither of them two.
With the last sentence we did in fact claim, that there is digital/virtual memory that is an emergent property of digital realm represented by totality of all chips connected via internet into global network. This is also a necessary conclusion from an extended phenotype point of view. And that is exactly an argument against an illusion that one can manipulate with the memory in virtual/digital world. You can of course erase a compromisying picture on Facebook, but that does not affect much global memory. You can erase a person standing beside Stalin on a photo, but you cannot erase zilions memories and recollections collected around that photo. Stalin tried to perform this - and he failed for one reason mainly: because he undermined the laws of complexity. If someone made a mistake in a non-virtual world, like behaving bad in a bar with 20 people observing him, this mist or sould affect his ability to get a job as much as if he posted a picture of that moment on Facebook. He or she is responsible regardles his or her ability to erase phisical evidence from physical or virtual world.
