Thus, certainly, it seems that having control of our own information and memories (in so far as that is possible, and acknowledging the ever evolving nature of awareness), is a fundamental human right.

The notion that anyone can own an idea is rapidly reaching the end of its social utility, as are the concepts of money and markets.

In the rapidly approaching age of abundance, money will be a historical oddity, something we will have to work hard at conceiving of, and ideas will be freely shared.

The really interesting evolution will be occurring within the individual minds of each and every one of us, as we all choose our paths (or have them chosen for us by circumstance, or the reality of some mix of the two) through the infinite possibility space available to us.

Interesting times indeed.
And I agree with others, that the next 20 to 30 years will be the most critical to the future of human life in this universe.

As always technologies are morally neutral.
As always, it is what we choose to do with them that matters.

I even felt uneasy when watching the first Men In Black movie and these oh-so-heroic agents brought out their “neuralyzer” to delete the memories of people who had seen something they weren’t supposed to know. A memory-deleting device would be the most sinister technololgy imaginable, should it ever be invented in real life. To me, it spoiled even what was supposed to be a light-hearted comedy.

People ARE, among other things, the sum of their memories. Deleting memories against a person’s own will would be a grotesque violation of personal integrity. Also, the first to master some kind of memory-deleting technolgy could potentially get away with anything: Removing evidence of their crimes — even “evidence” stored in other people’s minds — would become feasible.

This is not where we want to go.

Do you notice the inconsistency between these paragraphs?Taken literally, your statement assumes change and static entities at once.

If your memories shape your thoughts, memories, and actions (deciding is an action too) and these in turn shape your memories,
then your “new” memories will shape these things again, they will create new memories, etc going on indefinitely.

Shaping is an action, an action is change.Shaping memories includes loss of information, too, btw.
Adding memory, not only losing, would change “who you have been”, too.

Therfore you’re constantly changing, and dying at least according to one condition of your definition of this:”lose part of who you have been”.

Now, you wouldn’t be who you are without your environment anyway.Much of you is more or less arbritarly,
not self-chosen in the end, if your search for “final causes”.

Just try to see yourself as an open system, living within other systems, if you like to see an alternative to the traditional western (aristotelian) way to see things.

This being a true(er) view of reality would imply you’re much more like a process than a static entity.
I would even go as far as to say there are no static entities.A viewpoint many east Asian philosophies hold.

If that’s true, you’re at any given moment who you’d have been, since all the other possibilites existed only in your head and are only real in so far as
they “are” what you have been, coming into existence because of insufficient information (you can’t hold all the information in all systems affecting you, to calculate
the “true future”).

Of course, all this implies an absence of free will, because it is a deterministic point of view, and therefore makes changes brought about by the agency of other “systems”/people as “natural” (—> no murder to change you!?) as anything else.

Thus: I conclude there is no static me that can be killed anyway.There is only matter and emerging, bounded consciousness.
Which contradicts one of your central premises (static entities).

Anyway: I’m almost certainly wrong, because my information is incomplete and I just conjured this up^

But still, it could be worth thinking about, imho.

Have a nice day;)

As for my (humble) opinion;
My memories shape my thoughts, and my decisions and actions, which in turn again shape my memories. It is part of who am I am, and who I’ll be.

As such, taking away memories or knowledge (ANY memories or knowledge) is almost like a form of murder, as you won’t be who you would have been, or lose part of who you have been.

I imagine that, as with any current modern technology, such chips would be hacked and modified massively, and such hacking and modding would be made easily available to the general public, just as hackers and modders are glad to share their knowledge now.