Apparently, octopi dream...actively...
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/octopus-sleep-stages-active-color-quiet-rem-brain
Thoughts?
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/octopus-sleep-stages-active-color-quiet-rem-brain
Thoughts?
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To sleep, perhance to dream...
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So do cats. It hilarious to watch them dreaming of running free, legs pumping and pushing themselves off the chair
Could you imagine watching an octopus dream?
this appears to be such a video
With twice as many legs to kick it could be fun
Because news outlets are reporting it?
You have a dog?
That's just like how Goofy (a talking dog) has Pluto (a mute dog).
Heyo
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Given the genetic distance of cephalopods and mammals this hints at a universal need to dream for a brain to function. Maybe AI scientists should take notes.
True...but common sense is not evidence, hence the studies...and the press release, news articles, etc...
Or maybe it doesn't have much to do with the brain. Who knows. They don't even know the purpose of or what sleep actually does.
A robot will never be able to dream. You have to be able to have different states of consciousness to dream. A robot is just a program.
The cephalopod brain is different enough that this is not so clear.
Aye, there's the rub.
Heyo
Veteran Member
A neural net is not "just a program". It functions more like a brain than a classical program. It may even have or can be programmed to have different states of consciousness as soon as we know what that is.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (retitled Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1968.
Yes, I love Blade Runner, too. But that's fiction.
Evidence that we are still very primitive. We don't know how our brains work.
I'd prefer that we find a way to get rid of our dependence upon sleep. Maybe its a useless evolutionary relic? Maybe sleep is what helps creatures to lie dormant when either hibernating or hiding, and perhaps this has been a survival trait that has unfortunately become part of our body rhythms inherited from a time when they were necessary. Maybe sleep is just another appendix or like earlobes.