That far in the future and they forget the "Cut" and "Paste" commands

[PiratesFr33k]

Another thing is that the machines which do the "brain scan" merely record the data ("it's like having your picture taken") from the brain onto a computer. I don't think the brain scan machines in SOMA work with "cut and paste" like our real-world computers do with files. I imagine them being more like a scanner. If you put a document on your flatbed scanner, you couldn't "cut and paste" it either. You take an exact photo of the original and that's all.

Even if you wanted to, the scanner couldn't cut and paste (i.e. disintegrate) the document.