What's the Purpose of Resting State?

In cats, for instance, if you look at V one, you can see them cycle through these, like, different orientation patterns. So the fact that you find this activity for a particular orientation pattern in V one actually isn't that surprising. And then it brings to the question of, so you go through these states and they're sort of, they're either conscious states or not even conscious states. It's just kind of showing you everything that's happened before. It's like the cumulative history of your brain. Yeah, that's, that's a huge question. I think that's one of the main questions I'm interested in, just in general.

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