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Unlocking the mysteries of our brain | David Eagleman

The TED Interview

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The Visual System Defends Itself During the Long Hours of the Night

The more plastic species you are, the more hours you have to spend dreaming at night. The whole point is just to defend the visual system against its neighbors. Just ser visual qortex having a little wock out. And so i'm wondering how much this is almost like a just a repeated pattern in nature that as things look to maximize whatever goal it is they try out all this complexity and the end result is is something beautiful and amazing.

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