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From: cww@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Charles William Webster)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Here's one ...
Message-ID: <1614@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 88 00:17:27 GMT
Reply-To: cww@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Charles William Webster)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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In article <1116@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <409@soleil.UUCP> peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru) writes:
>>
>>Have you ever thought about what the brain is doing between thoughts?
>
>Sleeping.
>
>				--Blair
Do you mean that between the rapid succession of conscious "moments"
is a sleeplike state, or that there is nothing between these "moments", 
except longer periods of sleep?  Much current research on dreaming
is converging on the generalization that dreaming is a kind of
"consciousness".  If this were true, then what is between dream
thoughts?  You may have been joking but I think it would be fascinating
if the the brain was sleeping between "thoughts".   But would it be
the sleep of dreams or the sleep of little deaths?
--Chuck