What a flaw in the design of this machine made out of flesh, bones, and blood. At least shorter recharge period wouldn’t hurt, right?
We never developed a "credit system" for sleeping because there was no need to, like there was for food – if there was extra, it got stored into the body in the form of fat to prepare for tough times. Only in our modern times would we benefit from being able to function at 100% with less sleep, because we didn't think things through and didn't prioritize sleep which is the most fundamental cornerstone for good health. Evolution isn't intelligent so it didn't prepare us in advance for the type of society we have now – even we as thinking humans don't know how society is going to look in a few decades.
But what I think is interesting, is that sleep provides a touching point into the unconscious in the form of dreams. This might've been beneficial to the survival of humans because it inspired the creations of myths and legends that tied communities tight together through common narrative.
We are living in sleep deprived society these days. At least it seems so. Unless we find way how to either carve shorter time for sleep instead of doing all the interesting stuff, or better stimulants that keep us going, I see this going only worse from now. Sleep when you ded :D Because being awake and doing stuff is way more interesting. For me anyway.
The problem is that we would need to replace all the recovery processes that are associated with sleep (which there are a lot). If not, it'll lead to quick detorioration of health, even if we had good stimulants.
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