...Nor the first time some ancient mumbo-jumbo actually turned out to be how the world really works, as a modern approximation, even if in between was a period of relative infamy. Perhaps there's something to it after all? I mean, science still has zero idea why a pike knows how to swim the moment it is born, but an otter doesn't (and never will unless taught), even though the lives of both depend on it. Where within the single originating cell does the skill of swimming reside, exactly?
Of course, if we learn this, we can program the complete works of Frank Miller into our Thirteenth Tribe for shits and giggles. Heck, even if we merely strive to learn this, we'll get to the programming bit eventually. No need for "genetic memory" in the sense of "Oh, all the global deluge myths originate from the Med breaking its barriers and flooding about a million years before anybody knew how to write it down or even had a chance to meet enough kinsmen to pass the knowledge on in the form of poems, grunts or hand gestures". What we get in nuBSG could still be a good portrayal of the built-in potential of our nature, as suitably adjusted by technology.
Timo Saloniemi
