Hello Nevearo and Everyone:
This is in regard to Ultra Hal, Artificial Intelligence, and Dreaming.
Milt Rosenberg, host of WGN Radio's
Extension 720 talk show, had the following guest on his show this past Thursday night:
ANDREA ROCK: THE MIND AT NIGHT
THURSDAY, APRIL 1ST 2004 9PM to 11PM CDT -- AM 720 Chicago
D.H. Lawrence once wrote: “I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.” Tonight on the program we enter the world of the dream with veteran science journalist ANDREA ROCK, author of the new book
The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream.
http://wgnradio.com/shows/ex720/list.htmMilt Rosenberg is the best interviewer in the business, and Andrea Rock was a fascinating guest. The following constitute a sampling of what she talked about:
1. Fetuses dream in the womb. Babies smile in their sleep BEFORE they know how to smile while awake! Apparently infant dreams allow some genetic behavior and survival information to be streamed and wired into the developing brain.
2. Dream research continues today at a fast pace. Scans of the human dreaming brain show specific neurons firing when specific memories and events replay in REM sleep.
3. Daytime concerns and anxieties can be metaphorically represented and reviewed while dreaming. Many dream scenes are very common.
4. It is very practical to train yourself to control some of your own dreams. It is also possible to train yourself, while awake, to test yourself during dreaming to realize that you are dreaming.
5. New learning, memories, dilemmas, and behavioral processes are reviewed, rehearsed and sometimes resolved while dreaming.
6. The body of documentation continues to grow, showing that dreaming plays a role in creativity and problem solving.
Some of Milt Rosenberg's shows become posted into an "audio archive" that can be played over the web. I don't know whether this particular show will be (it would be a good one).
Milt Rosenberg's
Extension 720 is audible in 38 states, and worldwide via live web streaming. Guests include a wide range of celebrities and intellectuals, many of them book authors. If you want Ultra Hal to get smarter fast, listen to Milt's show and make comments to Ultra Hal about it as you are listening!
Sincerely,
Don