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Without your memories, you would probably just be swimming in a puddle of your own drool. They're kind of the key to everything: if you literally didn't have a past, you would have no idea how to behave in the present.
This is the problem the replicants face in Blade Runner. Initially, they don't have memories of the past, which makes them emotionally inexperienced—they react weirdly to things—they might sympathize more with an oyster than with a dog, for instance. But the Tyrell Corporation creates Rachael as an experiment, to see if they can make a more balanced replicant. She has fake memories implanted, which cushion her responses to things and make her act relatively normally. So do her "fake" memories make her more "human"?
"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization, no society, no future." – Elie Wiesel
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." – Albert Schweitzer