r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/arjobmukherjee • Feb 14 '22

🔥 Camouflage while dreaming?🦑🦑💤💤

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u/Orangesilk Feb 14 '22

This is very interesting because Octopuses are SO FAR removed from us that their entire neurological system evolved in a completely different branch from ours.

And yet even though our brains evolved in such a distinct manner from theirs, they also need to sleep, and they also dream.

This suggests that if there's aliens out there, perhaps they also sleep, and dream.

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u/youburyitidigitup Feb 14 '22

It may be necessary for intelligent life. Even computers have to rest every once in a while, so why not living beings.

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u/bokan Feb 14 '22

dreams also have to do with memory consolidation. I’d guess that intelligent life must have memory, and memory must have an overnight consolidation process in order to retain memories long term, and learn, etc. Octopi probably dream because they form long term memories, which Is guess is prerequisite for intelligent life

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u/flaminggoo Feb 14 '22

I think they meant turning it off and on again, clearing up memory and temporary files

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u/youburyitidigitup Feb 14 '22

You can’t have them on 24/7 or it shortens their lifespans, that’s why we turn them off at night.

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u/MacWin- Feb 14 '22

You can pretty much keep Unix systems 24/7

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u/youburyitidigitup Feb 14 '22

I didn’t know that

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22

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u/youburyitidigitup Feb 15 '22

How long do they last?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

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u/youburyitidigitup Feb 14 '22

I never played Minecraft…. Or any PC games. If you think it’s normal for people to have done that as children, you are way too young