If humans didn't ever sleep.....
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Which we wouldn't have had to do. Just as we haven't had to create something to hear.They invented something to get around this problem.
Possibly the most disturbing thing I`ve read online yet.
If we had twice as long to work on problems (eg without sleep) we`d just have twice as long to procrastinate.
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No, they'd be dead tired....
Working with the assumption that we don't need sleep as a thought experiment only. It wouldn't make a huge difference considering that we do not work for the entire 18 hours we are awake on average. Plus, consider this, the time zones mean that there's always someone working on a problem at all hours. Answering your question I think.
The fattest man wouldn't be fatter, he would less alive. His current sleep pattern is not the mortar to the building of this 'fat' success.
The fattest man wouldn't be fatter, he would less alive. His current sleep pattern is not the mortar to the building of this 'fat' success.
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Would die earlier because humans do need sleep.
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Which, ironically would be rather quickly given sleep deprivation causes brain damage.
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Doubt it. The Dark Ages did more for holding us back than sleeping 8 hours a day does.
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Doubt it. The Dark Ages did more for holding us back than sleeping 8 hours a day does.
Is there any evidence for this curve?
I think its a fairly anti religion based curve. There was quite a bit invented in the "dark ages" that has lead to modern life as it is.
http://www.lordsandladies.org/inventions-in-the-middle-ages.htm
http://www.lordsandladies.org/inventions-in-the-middle-ages.htm
I think most people are missing the point of this topic.
It's not simply "if you never went to sleep, you'd be tired LOL", the OP is giving you a hypothetical situation in which our bodies/brains do not need to sleep, ever.
In which case, yes, we most likely would be a lot more advanced than we are now, simply by way of our greatest minds having twice the uptime.
It's not simply "if you never went to sleep, you'd be tired LOL", the OP is giving you a hypothetical situation in which our bodies/brains do not need to sleep, ever.
In which case, yes, we most likely would be a lot more advanced than we are now, simply by way of our greatest minds having twice the uptime.