[ExI] why sleep?

[spike at rainier66.com]

<extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of SR Ballard via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] why sleep?

 

>…Dolphins can hunt while “sleeping”. Migratory birds fly while “sleeping”. And so on. 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep

SR Ballard

 

 

 

Hi SR, cool, that might work: figure out a way to let one hemisphere sleep at a time.  I know a lot of tasks I can do with half a brain.  I can do my weekly routine, the other hemisphere wakes up to a nice clean dive, cool!

 

But there are some issues.  One hemisphere is awake, gets mama in the mood, later the other hemisphere wakes up and finds out he missed out while he was asleep, he’s pissed at the other hemisphere, they get to fighting over her, later that day he wants some of what the other side got, the boys downstairs are calling for mercy.  OK this idea needs work.

 

spike

 

 

 

 


On Jun 17, 2020, at 9:55 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

 

This research group claims to be closing in on figuring out what actually slays the insomniac:

 

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-sleep-deprivation-kills-20200604/

 

If we can prove this study correct and figure out an alternative means of accomplishing the same thing without sleeping, oh that would be cool…

spike

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