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Conjecture (half serious): we won't get strong AI until we figure out why we need to sleep.
Anyone got any recommendations on lay-person books on sleep/subconscious?
This rambling summary article touches briefly on "natural selection" but no one has yet to look into what seems obvious. In mammals where most parents have to care for their young, if the young did not sleep, did not give their parents a break for long periods, they would not survive. Therefore sleep is selected for. Those offspring that sleep survive, passing on the sleep trait, to their offspring. - Source: parent.
This rambling summary article touches briefly on "natural selection" but no one has yet to look into what seems obvious. In mammals where most parents have to care for their young, if the young did not sleep, did not give their parents a break for long periods, they would not survive. Therefore sleep is selected for. Those offspring that sleep survive, passing on the sleep trait, to their offspring. - Source: parent.
Conjecture (half serious): we won't get strong AI until we figure out why we need to sleep.
Begins to sound like a science fiction novel where a bunch of sleep researchers discover that far from being 'down time' sleep is actually a period where our neural hardware is being used by beings from another dimension to perform some nefarious calculation. Or if Douglas Adams were still alive a P2P version of Deep Thought.
According to wikipedia: The ICSD-R states that 85–90% of the general population grind their teeth to a degree at some point during their life, although only 5% will develop a clinical condition.
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You're sure they weren't talking about people on polyphasic sleep schedules? Also, fatal familial insomnia is a thing, so we have a pretty good idea of what happens when people are deprived of sleep for too long.
FFI is a bad model for long term sleep deprivation since massive neuronal loss is also involved.
A related question: why do some (actually a lot of) people grind their teeth during sleep? According to wikipedia: The ICSD-R states that 85–90% of the general population grind their teeth to a degree at some point during their life, although only 5% will develop a clinical condition.
A related question: why do some (actually a lot of) people grind their teeth during sleep? According to wikipedia: The ICSD-R states that 85–90% of the general population grind their teeth to a degree at some point during their life, although only 5% will develop a clinical condition.
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Before CPAP, How many times do you actually remember waking up in middle of night?
From someone else with apnea: absolutely none at all. I didn't have to use CPAP to treat it though, so other people's experiences might be different.