Sleep restores an optimal computational regime in cortical networks - Nature Neuroscience
Xu et al. show that waking progressively disrupts neural dynamics criticality in the visual cortex and that sleep restores it. Deviations from criticality predict future sleep/wake behavior better than prior behavior and slow-wave activity.
So we’re literally biological computers and sleep is just a daily restart for stability purposes?
How mundane but useful.
I've always felt sleep is like stand by mode, and dreams are just your brain defragmenting.
Nice image
We have to reboot after daily updates.
Oh no, we run windows!
Rasmus Lerdorf approves