[Dragaera] Thoughts on age and experience on Dragaera

[Steve Rapaport]

Yes, Alexx, I agree there's plenty of textev to that effect.

But it stops my suspension of disbelief for three reasons:

1) I can't see the need for such a slowed learning ability
2) I can't see a rational possibility of it -- does it mean, for example,
that you'd have to repeat something 20 times more to get a Dragaeran child
to learn it, than to get a human child?  How would you construct such a poor
brain?
3) I can't see it as a reasonable side-effect of genetic manipulation for
longer life

The only way to my mind that this would make any sense from the point of
view of the powerful Jenoine is if such a slow-learning brain were the only
way to construct a 20-times-more-intelligent adult in the end.  But I
haven't seen much evidence that Dragaerans come out that way either.

But if as you say this is just how it is on Dragaera, then I'm surprised
Vlad (and all the other Easterners) aren't constantly thinking rings around
the Empire.  Not because they're smarter, but because they don't need to be
instructed 20 times to get it.

:)

StY

On 8 February 2010 17:14, Alexx Kay <alexx at panix.com> wrote:

> ...
> > But I can't see them being genetically how Dragaerans children could be
> so
> > SLOW to learn.  Mental maturity is a product of intelligence and
> > experience,
> > mostly.  If their intelligence is roughly human, then how can it take
> them
> > 20 times as long to learn the same stuff?
>
> It follows then that, at least in this aspect, their intelligence is *not*
> "roughly human".  The textev is clear in many places that they *do*
> develop that slowly.  There's even weak evidence that (most) adult
> Dragaerans continue to develop and learn very slowly compared to adult
> Easterners.
>
> Alexx
>
> It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.
>   [Seen on a Nancy Button, www.nancybuttons.com]
>
>


-- 
\Steve