Interesting. I take Lustral (seretonin reuptake inhibitor), there are
obviously some structural neuronal consequences to this! (and yes, I used to
sleep much more than I do now).
"Arthur T. Murray" <uj797 at victoria.tc.ca> wrote in message
news:3b77fb27 at news.victoria.tc.ca...
> "yan king yin" wrote on Mon, 13 Aug 2001:
>> > Hi All,
> >
> > This is the first draft of my paper.
> > Critiques or comments welcome.
> >
> > The HTML version with a few figures is at:
> > http://www.angelfire.com/myband/sevenless/Sleep.htm> >
> > =================
> > A Theory of Sleep
> > =================
> >
> > The Generative theory of sleep is proposed here.
> > It is based on synaptic selectionism, summarized below.
> > The new theory construes REM sleep as the generator of
> > "random" synaptic connections; and slow-wave sleep as
> > the stage where inadaptive synapses are eliminated.
> > Molecular mechanisms are speculated upon. [...]
> ATM:
> Thank you for this very well thought-out paper on Usenet.
>> Some collateral ideas on a theory of mind are on-line at
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ in the Docs area.
>> > [...] The random generation in REM sleep might be
> > the reason why dreams are bizarre. Also, immediately
> > after waking, the brain needs a period of adaptation
> > before being fully awake. This indicates that there
> > might be reorganization during sleep. [...]
> >
> > (13 August 2001) contact author: y.k.y at lycos.com
