Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
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#2Makes sense. Baby wildebeests has to learn to walk in minutes after birth. Hungry Lions are literally waiting for their lunch to be born.
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#3Unit-testing the software before deployment.
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#4I'm sure there is brain activity that prepares the baby for birth, but calling it a "dream" is just clickbait
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#5Unit-testing the software before deployment.
Yes and just like software it doesn't matter the test results were still going live
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#6I'm sure there is brain activity that prepares the baby for birth, but calling it a "dream" is just clickbait
The researchers call it "dream-like" and it is, in the sense that, like a dream, the neurons are stimulated and activated as though sensory input was occurring despite there being no actual stimuli.
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#7I always wondered how our brain is pre-wired to recognize 3D objects right after a birth, but this article is saying that eyes are giving fake image-like input to our brain so that it can perform "pre-training"? Does this imply that our brain is truly a blank slate if these initial seeds aren't given?
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#8Abre los ojos.
Re: Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
#9This article didn't link to the research article directly. Here it is for those interested: