Dreams as offline model fitting
Contemporary neuroscience frames REM and NREM dreaming as active inference / memory consolidation — the brain training on generated worlds.
Various (Hobson, Friston, Stickgold lineages) · Neuroscience reviews
Dream research has moved from Freudian theater to systems neuroscience: hippocampal replay, REM phenomenology, and generative models of perception.
Headtap’s interest: dreams as the biological precedent for simulated worlds — and a warning about how private generative systems rewrite memory.
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