Coltan Scrivner
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, simulations work.
Pilots do simulations.
Like you don't want your pilot to be the first time he's ever thought about flying a plane, his first flight.
Yeah.
Simulations work.
We use them all the time.
And so, yeah, if you can simulate something while you're sleeping, even better.
You don't have to waste time during the day doing it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Weirdly.
You do.
You do.
And you make connections you wouldn't make otherwise.
And when you wake up, certainly before we kind of knew what dreams were, you're going to wake up and you're going to tell everyone you know, because you don't know why you had that.
Did I go to a new world?
You know, we don't really know what dreaming is.
Did I travel to see my ancestors?
And there are cultures that believe that, reasonably so.
You know, if I was born a thousand years ago, I'd be terrified of dreams.