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Politics : The Castle
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (1472)4/7/2003 3:18:05 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 7936
 
"How do you know that there is not a biological clock that releases a chemical or chemicals that causes a decrease in consciousness of the outside world?"

I don't know. That is why I said only what was known.

"You know you do not access and control energy reserves when you have extreme fatigue. You know also that sleep restores that ability to you. You may not know WHY...but you DO know it is a FACT."

I suspect that the brain "fatigue" is caused by a preponderance of electrical "data" which needs to be processed and stored in order to clear the "active" brain much like in our computers. Too many open "windows" overloads the capacity of the synapses to move and organize the data. I am speaking informally here as a matter of common sense rather than science. But I think my analogy may be rather appropriate when the evidence is in...
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