I was also reading that article. The place cell phenomena has been known
for many years. For a long time I've thought that sleep might be used for
something other than just down time and cellular repair, and this research
does seem to confirm that sleep has some functional role. It's
On 12/14/06, Charles D Hixson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To speak of evolution as being forward or backward is to impose upon
it our own preconceptions of the direction in which it *should* be
changing. This seems...misguided.
IMHO Evolution tends to increase extropy and self-organisation. Thus
