I think this is pretty well established as far as neurologists are concerned and explains a lot of things. Like dreaming for instance.. just something like the model running without sensory input constraining it.

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magospietato 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Always wondered if dreaming is some kind of daily memory consolidation function. Logged short-term/episodic memory being filtered and the important bits baked by replaying in a limited simulacrum.

	▲	direwolf20 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		There was once a neural network that used dreaming phases for regularisation. It would run in reverse on random data and whatever activated was down–weighted.

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kingstoned 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Could you please give some sources - books or articles or videos on that topic? It's really fascinating

	▲	tracerbulletx 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phib.12268?u... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23663408/ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/371/1708/201... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20068583/
	▲	jlhawn 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		the book I mentioned (_The Experience Machine_ by Andy Clark) talks about this.