User blog:Subject AMDR/Genetic Memories...

So the Animus works by allowing the user to view the memories of their ancestors, which have been locked away in their own DNA as genetic memories. A couple of things have come to mind..

As people may remember the same events differently the Animus isn't showing us a true past. For example, if people are on mind altering or hallucinogenic drugs what they perceive to be reality is not. They remember things differently therefore and so the user of the Animus can only 'see' their preception of what happened.

On the point of drugs I would like to insert the following definition of Assassin:

a member of a secret terrorist sect of Muslims of the 11th-13th cent., who killed their political enemies as a religious duty, allegedly while under the influence of hashish. - http://www.yourdictionary.com/assassin

The other thing is regarding the laws of physics. As something expands it has to reach a 'break point' at some point if it doesn't have infinite room to expand into. With every generation that is born there is another full life's worth of memories added to the genetic memory of the offspring. The human body being the area of containment will eventually have to explode to contain all this.. Has the series addressed this somehow or am I overlooking something in particular? In relation to this the movie 'The Butterfly Effect' uses the same principles where a time traveller lives multiple different lives in an instant and suddenly gains extra memories from these lives. As a result his brain, which holds the area where memories are stored, expands rapidly pressing against the inside of his skull.

Anyway, feel free to comment.

Merry Christmas! Subject AMDR 22:37, December 25, 2010 (UTC)