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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It may be that sleep is helpful in optimizing population growth rate for non-functional reasons. E.g. a simple model, from Field and Bonsall's "The evolution of sleep is inevitable in a periodic world", shows this behavior:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201615 …
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Very interesting paper.
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maybe DEC2 mutation is an indicator of evolutionary superiority :-)https://profiles.ucsf.edu/ying-hui.fu
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My favorite explanation of sleep is that it's your brain using backpropagation to re-weight neural connections, and you can't run it forwards and backwards as the same time. Fun Quora post:https://www.quora.com/Are-dreams-a-form-of-backpropagation …
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