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DaveC426913
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Thanks lavinia. Great answers. much food for thought.
houlahound. Agreed. I don;t think dreaming is a survival advantage, I think it's emergent too.
What I was trying to get at is that, for all creatures, no matter how separated in the tree of life, their common ancestor (that little shrew, running between the legs of T. rex) would have had that ability, passing its complex, dreaming brain on to all its descendants. Dreaming is ancient indeed.
houlahound. Agreed. I don;t think dreaming is a survival advantage, I think it's emergent too.
What I was trying to get at is that, for all creatures, no matter how separated in the tree of life, their common ancestor (that little shrew, running between the legs of T. rex) would have had that ability, passing its complex, dreaming brain on to all its descendants. Dreaming is ancient indeed.