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Nobody knows what the function of sleep is, but we know that it cannot be achieved without disconnecting us from the external world. Sleep is not compatible with a fully conscious experience. Why? We investigate this in our latest paper on @nature 🧵1/25
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In any animal, a fully conscious state and sleep are not compatible, to the point that one of the definitions of consciousness is that “all that is lost while we are in dreamless sleep”. 2/
The fact that the brain has to surrender to the tyranny of sleep is also the main reason why scientists believe (in a rather dogmatic fashion) that sleep is “of the brain, by the brain for the brain“. 3/ nature.com/articles/natur…
