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Do sponges sleep?
by jldugger 1y ago
Do sponges sleep?
- throwawayffffas 1y agoPresumably. Some jellyfish sleep[1] But do fungi and Archea sleep? My guess based on what we read is yes and no. [1] https://www.science.org/content/article/if-alive-sleeps-brainless-creatures-shed-light-why-we-slumber https://www.science.org/content/article/if-alive-sleeps-brai...
- rkomorn 1y agoOf course fungi sleep. That's how we can catch them in order to eat them.
- jldugger 1y agoYea, but at some point this is probably gonna strain the colloquial definition of sleep. So I went for one of the oldest and perhaps simplest animals around, to examine the "creature" angle in extrema.
- jjk166 1y agoThey certainly aren't exclusively inactive, which is all that matters for this discussion.