Intergalactic Summit

True, we're looking at this done in isolation on a scale never seen in human history. It makes them what might be a first cousins what we would consider a distant relative genetically.

Mr. Borkstar has claimed he was not "raised Amarrian" as a child. In all events, he has throughly rejected any such upbringing and is a "False Amarr" as Lieutenant Kernher observes.

I was not aware of this - well, however he was raised I doubt it was as a Jovian. He will still retain his trained cultural biases and perspectives.

Oh! So many tales to tell! Or not. Let's hope you are all professionals there.

While I see where you're coming from with this idea, in most contexts, the brain is ultimately a machine. No matter what it has been trained to believe, pump it with enough of the wrong sort of chemicals and it'll snap like a twig.

Also, he just died, which is a pretty effective way of running from yourself.

Seems to me that these scientists need to look up the word "success."

When you think about it, the average human brain only stores and retains so much memory. A middle-aged person without cybernetic assistance only has dim recollections of their early years. Those of us with augmentations retain more, but processing all the data can still be an issue. I can remember several battles I was involved in, but couldn't tell you what I had for breakfast before them.

Perhaps, amnesia, even through misadventure, is a way for us to be able to maintain our longevity?

For most people, immortal or not, forgetfulness is inevitable. Perhaps it is even desirable.

Respectfully, and speaking for myself, Sir Mokk, I see no need for a reason to my situation aside from the primary one: that it served my saboteurs' purposes that I should forget. That it may have made a happier person of me is not a reason; only a consequence. I am grateful for my existence, but I don't wish to pretend that it was for my own sake that this was done. Nor would I feel comfortable recommending this path to others.

I understand that you feel our experiences are similar, Sir Mokk. I understand why you would feel that way, but, respectfully, for me it hasn't been a matter of losing a little time.

There are people who say that we truly die each time we are cloned. I guess ... I can't prove that isn't true, but, to me, this seems silly.

Forget everything that ever happened to you and everyone you ever cared about; forget your entire life. Then tell me that cloning is a true death.

I'm not just refreshed or renewed. I'm maybe reincarnated.

I'm not myself. And even if I don't quite regret that, it isn't an easy answer to anything at all.

Not to be difficult, but this isn't quite scientifically correct. Most people retain almost all long term (as opposed to short term, which are thrown out in only a few minutes but rarely matter anyway) memories for their entire lives, barring the onset of dementia or injury. Except in extraordinary cases, there's no issue of "storage space"; The human brain has a capacity for holding information that is frankly extraordinary for a natural biological construct, and has only been surpassed by computers relatively recently - Scientists estimate it to be in the range of around 2.6 petabytes, or 2,600,000 gigabytes. We don't fill anything close to this over the course of our lives.

The phenomena you're describing is not the result of memory loss, but memory prioritization. To put it in simple terms, a middle aged person can no longer vividly recall childhood memories because the mind has noticed they are no longer frequently "looked at", and so ceased making new connections to them. This is a mechanism by which our brains attempt to protect us from being flooded with outdated and unnecessary information which may impede our ability to think rationally ans solve problems.

But those memories are still there, and with the proper stimulus, could still be recalled. If you've ever heard someone say, "I remember it like it was yesterday" when referring to a formulaic event, they're not just waxing poetic - Extremely important memories that someone brings to mind on a frequent basis can be just as intact, and easy to access, as ones of things that literally just happened. Even more so, in fact; This is known as the "Telescoping effect".

So there's no reason we couldn't live for a millenia and remain perfectly sane. I'd suggest this sort of thing happening as often as it does with Pod Pilots might be less old age and more the fact that we melt our brains with lasers every 2 weeks.