[Dragaera] Thoughts on age and experience on Dragaera

[Chrisf.Olson at Sun.COM]

Could it be the genetic manipulation based upon the animals from which 
Dragaerans were developed?  Leaving aside dragons*, it's possible that 
developmental learning was degraded from the humans when they were 
spliced with local DNA.

* Okay, dragons and perhaps athyra.  Beyond those two, what evidence is 
there that any of the other animals used to form the Houses have a high 
intelligence?

If I gave it some thought, I could likely come up with other reasons as 
to why it takes so long for a Dragaeran to develop mentally.  We must 
base our understanding in human terms and lifespans.  If humans lived 
for thousands of years, it is possible our developmental functions would 
be different as well.  (We can really only speculate on this one, unless 
one of you knows someone who's been around for a while...:)

Chris


On 02/ 8/10 09:36 AM, Steve Rapaport wrote:
> 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