Sure, I agree with all that. Although, I have two heuristics: - 1. listening to my body's tiredness is probably a safer general strategy than pushing myself to

Sure, I agree with all that. Although, I have two heuristics: - 1. listening to my body's tiredness is probably a safer general strategy than pushing myself to the brink as a general strategy. It would be extremely surprising if this was not the case, going in the face of thousands of years of folk wisdom and decades of research. I'd welcome that finding since it'd be a rich source of future discoveries, turning much of common wisdom about sleep and rest upside-down - 2. it confirms my biases about the ideas I've liked and cherry-picked from [0], [1], [2], and [3] :^) - I'm willing to update my beliefs in the face of new analyses/results, but is there really any epistemological way for me to try to derive real life benefit in a valuation-free way? At some point one makes a lossy approximation of reality in one's desired habits. At some level this is scientism, sure, since it's dangerous to assume one's observations are reality itself, but, it keeps me happy enough with the results. And it's fun to watch the meshing together of ideas over the years, as research pierces deeper into the world's veil.. I'm not the arbiter of the mechanics of internal bodily conscious experience, however, so, grains of salt and all that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [0] Partial sleep in the context of augmentation of brain function (2014), https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24822040/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24822040/ [1] The visceral theory of sleep (2013), https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23697225/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23697225/ [2] Integrated Information and State Differentiation (2016), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4923128/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4923128/ [3] Topographic-dynamic reorganisation model of dreams (TRoD) – A spatiotemporal approach (2023), https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763423000866 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01497...