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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 6993115" data-attributes="member: 20564">Or it could be a genetic adaption to their lifespan.  If they need to partition a brain of about the same size to be able to handle 750 years of memories perhaps they don't store "incidental" details into long term memory nearly as easily.  That could be why they are so focused on beauty - that gorgeous sunset might stay with them for 600 more years, while they will remember nothing of the rather mundane around-the-campfire chat the next morning and will laugh at your jokes again unless they were so good they kept them.  But along the same lines, "dropping" much of what you experience before it gets to long term memory would potentially allow them to learn skills (something they are working on retaining) but not gain all of the incidentals and wisdom that the same amount of time would afford others.  Especially when they don't have changing physical drives and needs over such a short course as decades to give them insights via differing viewpoints.</blockquote>