They do need to eat the brain (or functional equivalent) to get the memories of non-Scholars. Theoretically, there might be some way to copy memories into an artificially grown brain for them to eat . . . Or maybe if there was a species with multiple redundant storage organs for memories? But I haven’t added anything like that to the setting yet.
(Sapient scholars no longer eat still-living beings. After all, you wouldn’t want to remember eating yourself. But the wild version was fine with eating wild animals, since those are less complex and therefore less traumatic.)
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Date: 2020-02-15 12:13 am (UTC)(Sapient scholars no longer eat still-living beings. After all, you wouldn’t want to remember eating yourself. But the wild version was fine with eating wild animals, since those are less complex and therefore less traumatic.)