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Neuroscientist proposes AI-inspired theory for why we dream – nation.lk – The Nation Newspaper
Having bizarre, psychedelic dreams is akin to adding random data to a neural network to make sure it doesn’t ‘overfit’ to a particular dataset, argues Erik Hoel…
Why we dream is one of science’s most perplexing mysteries, but a neuroscientist thinks he finally has the answer.
Erik Hoel, a research assistant professor of neuroscience at Tufts University in Massachusetts, has taken inspiration from artificial intelligence (AI) for his theory.
In a new report, he argues that the often hallucinogenic, nonsensical quality of dreaming is like throwing in new, unexpected data to a neural network.
Professor Hoel calls this the ‘overfitted brain hypothesis’…
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