> It's still very odd that no species has ended up evolving a continuous maintenance system that can run while conscious, the benefits when hunting other animal

> It's still very odd that no species has ended up evolving a continuous maintenance system that can run while conscious, the benefits when hunting other animals that need sleep would be enormous, so there has to be significant evolutionary push for it. This is actually quite a conundrum. Animals as simple as flies have been observed sleeping (diminished brain activity while resting). It is highly conserved, so it must be incredibly important.