On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:02:16AM -0800, Philip Hart wrote: > Anyway, not arguing from Sethra, someone sophisticated in physiology > or specifically memory should now chime in and explain what's involved > in a human-derived brain living three thousand years and maintaining > clear memories of active lives, which I suspect requires more radical Since we don't really know how memory works, it'd be hard to answer that. > seven hundred years in the past. If I recall, some people with eiditic > (photographic) memories have the experience of their heads filling up > (though perhaps this is just a breakdown in the storage mechanism - out > of my depth here obviously). I haven't heard of that. I _have_ heard of eidetic memory people being less creative, or less abstract, something like that, than ordinary people. It seems Dragaerans aren't eidetic, but the changes to let them have a decent memory over 3000 years might in fact have interfered with other aspects of their intelligence. That wouldn't explain Easterner lack of progress, though. And Dragaerans are apparently strong despite rarely having visible muscles (although since their arms are longer they do have more leverage, and longer muscles) so they don't seem limited by base human physiology in that respect. I wonder how Dragaerans deal with famines, since they seem to have little body fat. -xx- Damien X-)