(urth) Memories stored in the brain
Ashley Crill
ash_crill at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 14 16:30:48 PDT 2013
> >> From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com>
>
> I assume the connection would be that memories traditionally considered
> to be stored on the brain were in this case stored elsewhere in the
> body. That seems to be a key Wolfean conceit and one presumably
> necessary for the alzabo effect, unless the animal always eats the brain
> before it mimics its dead prey. However, there may be other ways to
> explain this behavior in planaria.
>
I understood it to be the opposite.
The 'Wolfean' idea represented seems to be that memories can only be transmitted by eating a certain part of the brain.
Reference Severian's gruesome accession to the Autarchy as an example.
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