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#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep
Lex Fridman Podcast
Dream Sleep and Assimilation
The forgetting is so, it's so fascinating to say this. I mean, it seems to be deeply connected to that assimilation process. So forgetting, you try to fit all the new stuff into this big web of the old stuff and the things that don't fit you throw out. It's almost as though you're doing a Google search where I input Lex Friedman and it doesn't take me to the first page of your home site. But there actually is a link if I look at it. It's a distant, non-obvious one. And when you fuse things together that shouldn't normally go together, they cause marked advances in evolutionary fitness. That sounds like the biological basis
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