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Memory Storage, Long-Term
Memory storage for long-lived individuals thousands of years old is often a problem. Generally a biont will forget most of their memories after a few hundred years, sometimes less. Most long-lived bionts keep most of their important memories in an external substrate such as an exocortex, often permanently attached to their body in various ways or contained within a companion drone. Some use technosomes to write memories to data storage within the body, such as DNA-based memorybanks inside compubones.
 
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Development Notes
Text by Steve Bowers
Initially published on 08 December 2001.

 
 
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