"Why we sleep" (a correct answer would be wonderful...)
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I'm in a slightly odd spot here. I feel a little as though I've commented that astrology isn't all that convincing, and someone now wants a list of what I've read about astrology (a fair number of tidbits, over my life, but it was all bad, so I don't remember any titles);
and they pointers to explanations of why it's not convincing (well, it's so obviously not that I'd never bother looking up such explanations). I don't mean to make an equivalence: the "explanations" of sleep I've read were mostly somewhat better than those of astrology.
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But they weren't serious. Of course, I may be quite wrong about the current book. But all I can say is: the reviews mostly didn't make me want to spend the time reading it. I mentally bucketed it under:
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"may be useful for learning about _how_ & _why_ to sleep better, won't help much in explaining why sleep happens."
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This is a somewhat uncomfortable thread to be writing. It's began with a throwaway joke from my point of view. I don't regard my own point of view above as especially serious or well-founded. It's just how I arrived at my priors, and may be wrong.
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I'm just trying to see where you are coming from. I've never been particularly interested in this topic, if you are maybe there's something about sleep that you want explained that I have not thought of needing explanation or something like that.
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