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What do you mean by "the normal state of living beings"?

• serverholic 5y ago
  Surely you understand that most people consider being awake to be our default state and sleeping is just something that we need to do sometimes
  • slver 5y ago
    The way you phrased is reminded me how blindly we walk through life, doing things that our body forces us to do, because despite all our bravado about how smart we are... we really have no clue what we do and why we do it most of the time.
• vmception 5y ago
  It means that being aware of surroundings with continual sensory input and influence is the aberration. This matches some other theories as well, where humans and a few other always awake organisms are the extreme, due to selective pressures. For example, humans "feel bored" because having nothing pressing to do for survival is usually the wrong option. Whereas that isn't true for many other organisms and they likely wouldn't have an opinion about staying still in the same place for prolonged periods of time.
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