(urth) Memories stored in the brain

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Mon Jul 15 05:09:54 PDT 2013


Severian discusses this with Ultan. 

No dia 15/07/2013, às 11:46, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu:

> 
> 
> From: Ashley Crill
> 
>> > 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.
> 
> The way I understood it, both work - but eating the brain, rather than the body, and probably using a higher-quality elixir compared to whatever Vodalus was able to brew, works better and probably has fewer side effects.
> 
> - Gerry Quinn
> 
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