In regards to this whole sleeping is loss of consciousness business. Seems like a false dichotomy, or black and white thinking to me.
Consciousness is really a continuum, at some points we are more alert than others. For instance sometimes I take a nap, but only get down to theta brain waves, so maintain semi-conscious awareness of my surroundings, however afterwards I still feel refreshed. It is only when my consciousness descends down into delta-wave that physical and sensory input processing becomes so slow as to be negligible. During this time is when the brain switches temporary calcium bonds into permanent connections, prunes connections and does other forms of maintenance and repair. cerrubelum shifts body around to maintain blood flow. It is the reprogramming or recoding of the brain and body. Of course there are the increasing bursts of REM sleep. Typically they test the same new connections, similar to agile software development debugging. So if you recall your dream experience it feels like the same thing is happening over and over again, but getting longer and longer. Naturally the memory typically goes on hiatus during this coding and debuging phase, just as you generally don't want executives giving you new things to code while you are debuging the last stuff. Also as a developer you don't generally keep logs of testing and debugging as part of the production system. In summary a General Intelligence Operating System can also sleep and dream. After having experienced the day, and made note of various areas it may improve, at night it may recode/install new things, and test them, debug them, and have the upgraded version of self ready for the new day. -- Logan Streondj ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
