Primates, Pi and (unconscious) Ponderings
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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The Evolution of Dreams
Sleep is superimportant for adaptation. It really helps us make a triage of the memories that need to be kept, those that need to been forgotten or repressed. And dreams come on top of that as very sophisticated simulation of potential futures and counter factuals. If you look at the earliest literary texts in sumarian egypt, you'll see that this was so before writing was invented. We all dream every night. Do you dream enough nowadays?
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