No, it doesn't.
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Replying to @ArtirKel @danielgross
I haven't read the book. But the reviews and synopses suggest the book barely touches the question, except in a superficial way. (I considered reading it, but decided against when I realized it's not really about the question of the title.)
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @danielgross
Hm, I can excerpt the bits you may want when I get back home, or you can libgen it and have a look
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Or, what kind of explanation are you looking for? The book talks about the evolution of sleep, and it's functional role, what else is missing?
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Replying to @ArtirKel @danielgross
One that's convincing. Unlike the half dozen or more I've previously read about the evolution of sleep and its functional role.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @danielgross
Can you link me to the previous ones and why they are not convincing?
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Replying to @ArtirKel @danielgross
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);
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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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Replying to @michael_nielsen @danielgross
I see, then I'll have to look for these other explanations and make the case to you in a way you find convincing :-p I might email you at some point then
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