Dragaera

SPOILER for _Dragon_...what's up with Vlad, again?

Chris Olson - SunPS Chrisf.Olson at Sun.COM
Tue Feb 11 10:10:10 PST 2003

> 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
> changes than long-lived brain cells - or I will form a hypothesis about
> middle-aged Ds forgetting their childhoods etc.  I note that the
> Musketeers seem to maintain (or Paarfi finds it not worth exclaiming
> about when he portrays them maintaining) clear recall of events some
> 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).

Well, hold on a sec,ecause we're also dealing with a
race that can remember their *past* lives.

Taken that into account, it skews the memory hypothesis