Illustration of a dream according to the overfitted brain hypothesis (IMAGE)

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Illustration of a dream according to the overfitted brain hypothesis

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This illustration represents the overfitted brain hypothesis of dreaming, which claims that the sparse and hallucinatory quality of dreams is not a bug, but a feature, since it helps prevent the brain from overfitting to its biased daily sources of learning

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Georgia Turner

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