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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: Weird Dreams Might be a Brain Feature, Not a Bug
Description: Learn how weird dreams may help us in the real world; how we date dinosaurs; and why a healthy grip means a healthy body.
A theory from AI says our weird dreams help us better perceive the world by Briana Brownell
Our dreams’ weirdness might be why we have them, argues new AI-inspired theory of dreaming. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/cp-odw050621.phpÂ
‌Hoel, E. (2021). The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization. Patterns, 2(5), 100244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100244Â
Paleontologists know how old dinosaurs were when they died because bones are like tree rings by Cameron Duke
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