Thank you for linking to that. I found it incredibly fascinating and it got my gears turning. The similarity between the mechanics of sleep, and the mechanics

Thank you for linking to that. I found it incredibly fascinating and it got my gears turning. The similarity between the mechanics of sleep, and the mechanics of the 'disconnected from inputs' model-building phase (which I call 'dreaming') of Restricted Boltzmann Machines* is astonishing. (see for example Geoffrey Hinton on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=90154 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=90154).