Excessive screen stimuli and reduced sleep are causing widespread 'dream loss.' This deficit goes beyond individual health, crippling our collective ability to metabolize challenges and envision novel solutions for complex problems like climate change, creating an 'evolutionary catch-22'.

Unlike other species, humans are born with "half-baked" brains that wire themselves based on the culture, language, and knowledge accumulated by all previous generations. This cumulative learning, not just individual experience, is the key to our rapid advancement as a species.

While geological and biological evolution are slow, cultural evolution—the transmission and updating of knowledge—is incredibly fast. Humans' success stems from shifting to this faster clock. AI and LLMs are tools that dramatically accelerate this process, acting as a force multiplier for cultural evolution.

A key function of dreaming is to explore weak associations between new and old memories (a process called NEXTUP). The brain weaves these connections into a narrative, and your emotional reaction within the dream serves as the evaluation mechanism to decide if the new association is valuable and worth strengthening.

Dreams are not random noise but a neurobiological tool for survival. By simulating complex behavioral strategies based on past events, dreaming allows mammals to prepare for a probable future, exploring potential dangers and opportunities without any real-world risk.

Human intelligence leaped forward when language enabled horizontal scaling (collaboration). Current AI development is focused on vertical scaling (creating bigger 'individual genius' models). The next frontier is distributed AI that can share intent, knowledge, and innovation, mimicking humanity's cognitive evolution.

Our sense of self isn't an innate property but an emergent phenomenon formed from the interaction between our internal consciousness and the external language of our community (the "supermind"). This implies our identity is primarily shaped not by DNA or our individual brain, but by the collective minds and ideas we are immersed in.

The brain exhibits rapid plasticity, with unused areas being repurposed within hours. As vision is useless in evolutionary nighttime darkness, dreaming may be the brain's way of sending "keep-alive" signals to the visual cortex every 90 minutes, defending that neural real estate from takeover by hearing and touch.

Current AI development focuses on "vertical scaling" (bigger models), akin to early humans getting smarter individually. The real breakthrough, like humanity's invention of language, will come from "horizontal scaling"—enabling AI agents to share knowledge and collaborate.