Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? dj
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:50 PM, rigsy03<[email protected]> wrote: > > Are fish able to sleep? > > On Jul 15, 3:42�pm, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: >> Maybe the more interesting question here is the need for sleep at all. One >> theory is memory consolidation, where information and skills acquired during >> the waking day are organised by the brain into usable data. A bit like a >> file indexing service on most modern computer operating systems. The neural >> pathways to access that information are stabilised into long-term memory. >> >> See:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14744210?dopt=AbstractPlus >> >> I've also read about experiments done on rats proving that those allowed to >> sleep less than those with natural circadian rhythms died younger. >> >> There are some weird anomalies too. For example new-born dolphins may not >> sleep for the first few months of their lives, which asks all kinds of >> questions about sleep that we presume to be fairly well-established in >> mammals. >> >> Ian > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
