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That is an odd perspective. That's like saying that the damage from a twisted ankle is permanent, since you'll never get back the two days of lost activity. Fr
by cfmcdonald 8y ago
That is an odd perspective. That's like saying that the damage from a twisted ankle is permanent, since you'll never get back the two days of lost activity.
From that point of view, all injuries are permanent.
- rout39574 8y agoWell, yes. But the difference comes in the nature of the deficit you can't get back. By not sleeping, you magically turn some fraction of the previous day's learning into wasted time, just throw it away. The appropriate analogue in the twisted ankle case would be if the twist magically "un-walked" the 4 miles you walked the day before, and that increment of weight loss and cardio health were lost to you. This is of course not the case.. :)
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- graeme 8y agoYou generally don't recover fully from twisted ankles. Most injuries are in fact permanent in a certain sense. You heal, but not 100%. I saw this analogy upthread, and it's changed how I consider sleep deprivation. Brain injuries may not be different from physical injuries.
- eric_h 8y ago> all injuries are permanent Most significant injuries I've sustained since my early 20s have not let me completely forget them, in spite of them being "fully healed".