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Posted by: kippa
I guess I am thinking of them differently. I figure that it makes sense to keep the transsentient aspect in play, I see it as the most important part of their description. They can travel between galaxies and quicken evolution, but they have evolved to transsentience themselves. Thats massive. To go past sentience, what does that even mean? To have an understanding of everything? To perceive not only yourself but the universe as well?
Again, you're thinking deeper into it than I do. Which isn't a bad thing, like I said before, but I take a mild view of trans-sentience; more like understanding some of the complex questions that we can never bring ourselves to understand (such as, for example, how the universe began) than being omnipotent or aware of everything around them. This entire theory is founded on the basis that the Precursor could make flaws, which has not been proven yet. If they can't, then I admit freely that all of this is wrong.
I'm still not sure, unless the Flood has different features that were never revealed during the war, that a species so evolutionarily and technologically advanced would need to rely on organic technology to store past generations experiences. Even the spores used as a back-up are too risky to entrust with such a massive task. I'm finding it hard not to just say "they could've just used super awesome computers" because that seems too derivative of our technology. It seems to me that they would be using technology beyond our comprehension, if they were do to something like this.
What is a "memory"? It's just an electrical impulse lazily traveling a neuron, a bit of data in a complex, organic, electrical-based brain. Did the Precursor have something like this, a brain that functioned as ours do? My other theory about the spread of the Precursor suggests that we are inherently related, so I say that it's likely (especially judging that brains like that seem to be the norm of the sentient galactic community, excluding Lekgolo, which might have a ganglia-based intelligence), but that is also not necessarily true. If it isn't, again, this theory is virtually completely inaccurate.
How does a memory get preserved by a computer? Computers and brains run on electricity, but the parts aren't compatible. There's no USB that can be plugged into our minds that allows us to interface with a computer, at least not yet. The brain is too complex, multi-layered, and simply different for such a thing to occur.
That is why I came up with this hypothesis based upon the Flood. The Flood is organic, they have the parts just like we do, and they can interface with a human mind when no computer can. They can go in, gain the memories and intelligence of their host, and disseminate it back to a core that the Precursor believed fully in control. The Gravemind was the compatible computer, and each infection form is like a wireless uplink. Rather than making a mind-to-computer USB, the Precursor simply made an organic computer with trillions of parts.
I mean no insult by this, its just how I think of it. I know I'm not really participating, but I want to know if you have any theoretical... theories.
Think nothing of it, discussing and debating this theory is a favorite hobby of mine. It's why I made it in the first.
[Edited on 03.04.2010 4:53 PM PST]