No. We do not sleep. We are always awake and watching. Now if only we could solve the California budget crisis. The Terminator
On Jul 15, 7:07 pm, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
