Erik Hoel: how our weird dreams could be keeping our brains fit
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Nobody really knows why we dream. Erik Hoel, a research assistant professor of neuroscience at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was inspired by the techniques used to train artificial neural networks for his own theory of "overfitted brain hypothesis".
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