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PurpleYouko:

--- Quote ---There would be no need to investigate history since you could simply remember all of your species' history.
--- End quote ---

There is a pretty big flaw in this concept.
Babies would only be able to remember stuff that happened directly to their ancestors. For example I was born in England from English parents so I would know nothing about the American Civil war or the abolition of slavery or Samarais in Japan.

What you end up with is not the sum of all knowledge but a bunch of branches all leading in different directions and all remembering back to a common ancestor. An incredibly sucular society in which particular knowledge and skills are passed down certain bloodlines. Imagine if only one blood line knew the way to make a certain weapon and others conspired to wipe out that bloodline so that the weapon could not be made any more.
Lost technology.

Definitely the realm of Science Fiction.

Elite:
Yeah, that's a good point. You'd probably end up with many feuding lineages, which are only allowed to have one heir so as not to split the line.
How about genetic memory with telepathy and a hive mind  :D

Imagine the DNA length though  :wacko: you'd need rather alot of base pairs

I once read a book with a similar idea. Rather than a genetic memory the aliens shared memories via special nodules that contained memories. The nodules could be removed and eaten by another one of the aliens to pass on memories.


Speaking of memory, is it possible, or even practical or advantageous, to create a bot with a memory?

Numsgil:
I think it's possible, but exactly what would you remember?

You could remember what defenses and attacks the enemy's using, and adapt appropriately.  I believe that's what Excalibur or another one of Lights' bots does.

Beyond that, I'm not sure.

Endy:
Sounds like the idea about communicating bots. It's simple enough for them to communicate easily some 27 "symbols" or a whopping 2187(2.4) just via in/out and memloc/memval.

Same question though, what should they talk about? :wacko:

Most of the bots we make have been mainly action/reaction based while trying to keep all defenses at a maximum level.

Perhaps with a memory a bot could direct defenses better. If it knows that it is likly to be attacked with a particular shot type, it could increase the amount of substance counter it has.

Numsgil:
You could use memory to determine (not easily mind you) the conspec recognition system of your foe.

For instance, try mimicing memloc/memval pair.  If the other bot still attacks you, you know that's not working.  You could try using the Umbrella Draconis method, and modify the myeye variable.  If that doesn't work you could try mimicing the in/out method.

Once (if) you figure out the method, you can mercilessly exploit it, even pass it on to others.

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