It sounds nice (maybe too nice?). I always wanted to see that it would be necessary to have a "sleeping" phase in AI.
It always felt weird that we have to sleep, it doesn't seem to give any evolutionary advantages.
It always felt weird that we have to sleep, it doesn't seem to give any evolutionary advantages.
- Animals that have peaks of energy use outcompete animals that have a steady-state energy use. Catch the animal, then rest and recover. For any given amount of energy, this means we can recruit more in a smaller window compared to an animal that plods along with no recuperative phase.
- Many things happen when you're sleeping. Rather than having everything running 24/7, having different phases means we can specialise action and recovery. Since the time is already driven by energy demands, many parts of our body and mind leverage it for different purposes.
It may be hard to pin point exactly what advantage, but as we do it, it must have given us an advantage!