Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27027823-20150928204654/@comment-25555436-20150928210432

Thedefeatedsearch wrote: Now as we all know from the world of Remnant episode on Grimm, they get smarter as they get older. They learn as they grow older. Now as we've seen in season one of the show, Pyrrha talks at length about the Grimm being mindless creatures of a souless nature. These two statements contradict- Hold it right there. How are those 2 statements contradictory? How do they contradict each other? They don't.

The Grimm do not get smarter, they become more experienced. Which is different, although they go hand in hand. A 100 years old Grimm will be as smart as a 2 years old Grimm, the difference being that with all those years, the older Grimm has learned many things, and as such is much more effective than the 2 years old.

It's the same as with dogs. A dog that you teach how to hunt rabbits will be as smart as a dog you didn't teach that. But the first dog learned how to hunt rabbits, and as such will be more effective at it compared to the second dog.

A similar thing would be teaching a monkey how to use a machine. It's inteligence is the same, it just learned how to use one without shattering it.

It's the same reason for why the older Grimm do not play berzerk. An old Grimm who has seen a lot of fights knows that if they attack randomly anyone they see, they will get hurt, and possibly die, as such they avoid starting fights for no good reason. A young Grimm hasn't learned those consequences, and as such rushes towards everyone whenever they can.

It's not that their inteligence reaches a new level, they don't get any smarter. It's just that they learn different things from their experiences. Like most animals. The only thing that truly changes over time is their bodies. They grow bone armor. Their brains, however, stay the same.

All Pyrrha did was explain what they are in her own words: Mindless=Not inteligent, not necesarily that something is literally mindless. They do have minds. Their minds are just not inteligent enough to be considered more than simple wild monsters or animals. Don't take things so literally.