Why Sleep

Case A036A3A5-0D61-4243-9518-6C10ABBB04D3
Sponsor: Robert Thibadeau

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  • Verdicts

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
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    The evidence from Human natural language and sleep deprivation studies is overwhelming.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    The evidence from Human natural language and sleep deprivation studies is overwhelming. However its noise in the whole neural network not just the brain, that is reduced by sleep.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
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    The evidence from Human natural language and sleep deprivation studies is overwhelming.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    If you encapsulate this statement and don't claim it is the only reason we sleep, it is theoretically true.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    that sleep gives neural systems a chance to reduce internal noise so the brain can forget some overpowering raw perceptions and thereby improve learned perceptual/cognitive/motor predictions — is a plausible and partly evidenced account. Modern theories (synaptic homeostasis, memory consolidation, predictive-processing frameworks) all converge on the idea that sleep reorganizes synaptic strengths, prunes irrelevant signals, and stabilizes useful patterns.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 70 %
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    There is a LOT of detail that can be filled but follow from this basic finding.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    There is a LOT of detail that can be filled. Sleep has a definite physical relationship to being awake so the reduction of noise element to it is not clear. Suppose sleep is to suppress being overwhelmed by predictions.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 95 %
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    Sleep also allows the body to repair tissues, replenish cellular components, and strengthen the immune system. The release of growth hormone, essential for tissue repair, occurs predominantly during deep sleep. https://fiveable.me/key-terms/introduction-brain-behavior/restorative-theory

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 70 %
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    There is a LOT of detail that can be filled but follow from this basic finding.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    it’s not the whole truth. Sleep serves multiple functions beyond noise reduction and selective forgetting: glymphatic clearance of metabolic waste, immune and endocrine modulation, thermoregulation, and developmental roles (especially in infants).

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 85 %
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    It reflects the overall scientific understanding of why we sleep.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    At this level of theory, this is the one correct answer to why we sleep.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    At this level of theory, this is the one correct answer to why we sleep.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    As stated in a very limited way, yes. I just feel compelled to add what sleep also theoretically does. https://lystechnologies.io/reflections/three-theories-for-why-we-sleep/#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20studies%20show%20that,Memory%20processing For example, studies show that a growth hormone is secreted during deep sleep, repairing tissue that has been damaged during the day. A team at the University of Rochester Medical Center also discovered that the glymphatic system circulates fluid through the brain that flushes out waste.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    The markup is partial and theoretical — useful and evocative, but it simplifies and anthropomorphizes neural processes (e.g., “forgetting overpowering truths”) and downplays other empirically supported sleep functions. Treat as a strong hypothesis, not the sole fact.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    From a biological and neurological perspective.

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    There is no deceit.
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
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    There is no deceit.
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
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    Answer:
    There is no deceit.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    Is that the accusation is stated as nothing but the truth, but is only the partial truth about why we sleep.
    Answer Confidence: 80 %
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    Answer:
    There is no deceit.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    There is no deceit.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    The deceit (or misleading element) is primarily overgeneralization and metaphorical rewording presented as literal.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Saying we sleep to forget “overpoweringly truthful perceptions” risks three confusions: (a) implying sleep is primarily an epistemic censor rather than a multi-functional biological state; (b) treating “truth” and “noise” as tidy categories the brain can simply discard; and (c) glossing over alternative mechanisms (waste clearance, neurochemical resetting). In short: the statement compresses a complex, multi-mechanistic reality into a single, seductive causal sentence.

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    There is no deceit.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    This truth is intended because of the evidence that it is true. All animals...all living natural neural systems...sleep. It is necessary to perceiving, cognition, and action in animal life itself.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    This truth is intended because of the evidence that it is true. All animals...all living natural neural systems...sleep. It is necessary to perceiving, cognition, and action in animal life itself.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 95 %
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    Truth is intended. Sleep deprivation can cause serious mental and physical health issues.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Truth intended.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Intent is almost certainly epistemic/rhetorical rather than malicious.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    This truth is intended because of the evidence that it is true. All animals...all living natural neural systems...sleep. It is necessary to perceiving, cognition, and action in animal life itself.

    Answer:
    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    The motivation is to be informative
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    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    I learned a lot.

    Answer:
    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Acceptable
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
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    After reading the book "Why people sleep" by Walker it is clear why this correct view is socially acceptable. Walker muses about alternative theories and reaches no conclusions precisely because he has not studied this conclusion from computational cognitive neurosocience.

    Answer: Acceptable
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
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    After reading the book "Why people sleep" by Walker it is clear why this correct view is socially acceptable. Walker muses about alternative theories and reaches no conclusions precisely because he has not studied this conclusion from computational cognitive neurosocience.

    Answer: Acceptable
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Acceptable
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    Answer: Acceptable
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    Answer: Acceptable
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    Answer: Acceptable
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    Answer: Acceptable
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    This is true.
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    This is true.
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    No label needed
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    This is theoretically true if we are only talking about the brain and cognition.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    No label needed
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    This is true.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    No label needed
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    Answer:
    This is true.
    Answer Confidence: 95 %
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    No label needed.