SRAFFANS: INTELLIGENCE The most notable feature of the Sraffa, however, is their deity-like intelligence. They can absorb information quickly, and can easily sort through their vast memories to retrieve an obscure fact. While unable to actually predict the future, they can understand the consequences of current actions far into the future. For example, observing a fan blowing on a candle, they can exactly predict the flickering of the flame in real-time, and know to within a tenth of a second when the nearby drapes will be engulfed in flame.