Dream

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 Dream

PKGhatak, MD

No.17.

An ever-present dictionary is following you like a shadow, or your Gene of the Aladdin and the Magic Lamp fame. Today, her name is Artificial Intelligence, simply AI.

Ask AI about the dream. The following answers she gave me to my questions: 

Simply stated, dreams are '' a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep,” Oxford dictionary.

Like humans, rats, spiders also dream during sleep, not to speak of cats and dogs. When challenged to prove this, she cites depressed activity of the prefrontal cortex, documented by instrumentation.

Well, is not non-excitatory stage indicative of activities of the brain?

That is true, but the prefrontal cortex is dedicated to providing only rational and logical information. But dreaming during sleep, irrational thoughts, ideas, and wishful thinking sneak in due to the inactivity of the prefrontal cortex.

Still have doubts. Well, watch your cat chasing imaginary prey during sleep.

It is accepted that Cuneiform writing is the earliest written document of the civilized world, around 2500 BCE. The Mesopotamians left their stories about dreams and believed dreams were messages from God.

The majority believe that memory consolidation, emotional processing, and unresolved problems solving take place during sleep. Some others advocate that sleep helps humans adapt to the rapid changes of the modern world, and is an avenue for rehearsing responses to perceived threats and expressing unconscious desires.

If AI is going to provide such precise answers to narrowly targeted questions in no time, then who needs to keep any fact in memory at all. Of course, if people are ignorant, then no one would ask questions either, maybe AI will also provide the questions.

 Sadly, my conclusion is that AI is going to make humans dull in the long run. A homogeneous morons will habitate this earth in the future, and AI will drive future generations like slaves, as we have seen in our past.

 I quit accepting answers from AI and went to bed and slept. I do not remember whether I dreamt.

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