Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id BAA11534 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 21 Jan 2002 01:46:54 GMT Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 17:42:31 -0800 Message-Id: <200201210142.g0L1gVa23812@mail3.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [66.156.194.69] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: RE: Sensory and sensibility Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu> <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> RE: Sensory and sensibilityDate: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 08:51:24 -0500
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>Joe Dees:
>> Dreaming seems to happen when the brain is sifting through the
>> day's experience, saving part in longer term memory and deleting the rest.
>
>I read a report some time ago that suggested that dreaming had as one
>function 'emptying the garbage' of neural connections or thoughts that were
>not useful or valid. Does this make any sense?
>
Yep. We retain the unusual, the intense and the useful, and dump the routine, the mild and the ordinary.
>
>Lawrence
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