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From: dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Q. re: suspension of common-sense reasoning during dreams
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Date: 23 Mar 89 17:29:54 GMT
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In article <1368@hub.ucsb.edu> silber@sbphy.ucsb.edu writes:
>In dreaming, common-sense reasoning is usually suspended, [...]
>I am interested in any NET-speculation re: this phenomenon and its
>interpretation from the standpoint of a-i.

REM sleep has been shown to promote memory consolidation.

Set metaphoric_mode=on

If your evaluator were an independent parallel process continuously
evaluating whatever is pointed at by the current data pointer, you
could get some pretty strange values during garbage collection.

-David West