What Happens While Your Brain Sleeps is Surprisingly Like How Computers Stay Sane
▻http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/12/23/what-happens-while-your-brain-sleeps-is-surprisingly-like-ho.html
There’s a deep similarity between how long running systems like our brains and computers accumulate errors and repair themselves. Reboot it. Isn’t that the common treatment for most computer ailments? And you may have noticed now that your iPhone supports background processing it reboots a lot more often? Your DVR, phone, computer, router, car, and an untold number of long running computer systems all suffer from a nasty problem: over time they accumulate flaws and die or go crazy. Now think about your brain. It’s a long running program running on very complex and error prone hardware. How does your brain keep itself sane over time? The answer may be found in something we spend a third of our lives doing. Sleep. There’s new research out on how our brains are cleansed during sleep that has (...)