Hi there. It's Matt here and welcome back to the podcast and welcome back to another

AMA Ask Me Anything episode. A. A, Ben Simone.

Ety, welcome back.

Hi, everyone.

So, it seems as though we've got a collection of fascinating and some of them desperately peculiar questions.

Yes, yes, we have a good list today. I'm not going to point fingers at the people who sent those ones in,

but I love peculiar, considering that's essentially,

if you look it up, I am the poster child for exactly that term.

Anyway, let us crash on, let us start with the first question. You know when you

think about it, sleep is peculiar. So there are no wrong questions here.

It is a bit bloody odd, isn't it?

It is.

I think we've often spoken about it,

which is, it seems like a disaster.

What a mistake, that you design a system

where you're not reproducing, you're not finding a mate, you're not foraging for food, you're not caring for your young, and worst of all, you are vulnerable to predation on any of all those grounds. Sleep should have been strongly

selected against in the course of evolution. Yeah at some point your muscles are not working,'re not even there no and in terms of

humans worse still there are times when you start to become completely psychotic

and delusional you start to see things which are not there, you start to believe things that

couldn't possibly be true, you have these wild emotional swings, and then you wake up and you're

forgetting most, if not all of that experience. What on earth is going on?

Exactly. That's why we're doing what we're doing. It's just so fascinating.

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