3 ms·
Sleep involves large-scale slow rhythmic synchrony of the brain — a kind of low information entropy state because of the high degree of coherence. Despite the h
by dr_dshiv 5y ago
Sleep involves large-scale slow rhythmic synchrony of the brain — a kind of low information entropy state because of the high degree of coherence. Despite the heat, running also involves a large-scale slow rhythmic synchrony of the body and brain. Hypothetically, high-coherence exercise might have similar cognitive effects as sleep.
This is a testable hypothesis. Simply compare low-coherence exercise (say, moving boxes or frenetic dance) with high-coherence exercise (running or rowing).
- TrevorJ 5y agois 'coherence' a scientific term as it's used here? I would love to learn more about this.
- caleb-allen 5y agoSubjectively, I appreciate my running routine because it's so meditative. I obviously can't say what the brain waves might look like, but there are so many physical cadences that create a nice synchrony: heart beats, steps, breaths.