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Paul Franz
Dec 29, 2023
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An interesting observation by one of my parents—why do babies have trouble falling asleep, whereas non-human animals do not seem to have this problem—promptly degenerates into mechanistic flimflam. (Could it be something neurological? Could there be some evolutionary advantage conferred by it?)

Yes, of course, there are interesting mechanistic interpreta…

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