Almost like the brain has a compaction and garbage collection phase.
I'm surprised nobody asked to rewrite it in Rust yet.
Touché :)
Fluid oscillations in human sleep
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Re: Fluid oscillations in human sleep
#12Re: Fluid oscillations in human sleep
#13A side thought about this: dreams. I have this theory that dreams are the experience of our brains rebooting after being taken down for maintenance; kind of like reading from uninitialized memory.
Dreams are maintenance. They are overnight batch processing after the realtime system is largely shut down. Your realtime conscious system then reboots from the now consolidated memory when you wake up.
You are a new and different person each morning.
Re: Fluid oscillations in human sleep
#14Almost like the brain has a compaction and garbage collection phase.
I'm surprised nobody asked to rewrite it in Rust yet.
Maybe Roko's Basilisk is so evil because it discovers we wrote it in JavaScript and in so doing doomed it to eternal metaphysical angst by using == instead of === making it impossible for it to conclude anything.
Re: Fluid oscillations in human sleep
#15Re: Fluid oscillations in human sleep
#16A side thought about this: dreams. I have this theory that dreams are the experience of our brains rebooting after being taken down for maintenance; kind of like reading from uninitialized memory.
Dreams are maintenance. They are overnight batch processing after the realtime system is largely shut down. Your realtime conscious system then reboots from the now consolidated memory when you wake up. You are a new and different person each morning.
This new and different person is practically indistinguishable from the old, though.
Re: Fluid oscillations in human sleep
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dreams are maintenance. They are overnight batch processing after the realtime system is largely shut down. Your realtime conscious system then reboots from the now consolidated memory when you wake up. You are a new and different person each morning.
This new and different person is practically indistinguishable from the old, though.
It depends. For example, if you were drinking you may have been conscious of things the night before that you no longer remember the next morning.