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From: andrew@nsc.nsc.com (andrew)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: the surrealism of dreams
Summary: wanderings through the valleys
Message-ID: <10228@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 27 Mar 89 13:30:58 GMT
References: <74@opmvax.kpo.fi>
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In article <74@opmvax.kpo.fi>, ylikoski@opmvax.kpo.fi (Antti Ylikoski tel +358 0 457 2704) writes:
> I would like to try to contribute to the discussion involving dreams
> During a dream one's "symbol processing engine" roams free

I have read in at least a couple of places (exact refs unknown) that sleep
would be a useful mechanism for consolidating memory (sculpting those
hyperdimensional basins) and for unlearning. I guess these are really two
expressions for essentially the same process. There has to be an unlearning
mechanism somewhere/ sometime surely; the vast unconscious bandwidth, 
integrated over a lifetime, HAS to be greater than the capacity of even 
the brain, I would have thought.

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