[UA] Clockworks and Memories

[Greg Stolze]

>I'm trying to distinguish the concept of memories and knowledge here. Going
>to One-Shots, if Uder Kram-? (don't have the book with me now, sorry) has
>written a detailed log of his wife's illness and death, and sacrificed the
>memory of her death, could he still gain the knowledge of his wife's being
>dead by reading his log? And then how about sacrificing the memory of ever
>having read the log, and then re-reading?

My take would be that he would, then, intellectually know what had happened
(with the resultant Self checks) but would not remember the event, any more
than I remember fighting Smaug with Bilbo Baggins.  I remember reading a
BOOK about that.  Uder would remember reading a book about his past.  But
he couldn't re-sacrifice the memory because the memory of a recollection is
less real than an actual memory.  It's like duplicating cassette tapes.

-G.

If the reinstatement of capital punishment was clearly doing nothing to
reduce the number of murders in those states permitting it, it certainly
appeared to be cutting down on the number of confessions.
        -Dr. Douglas Ubelaker

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