Word: debugged
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...memory inherited from our arboreal ancestors, who lived in trees and suffered when they forgot the effects of gravity. He speculates too on the reason for dreams. Many neuroscientists believe that dreaming is less a working out of subconscious desires than the means by which humans "debug" or rewrite the mental programs they have picked up during the day. But if this is so, Sagan wonders, why do infants, who presumably have little or no experience to sort out, seem to dream just as much as their elders...