Timeline for What extra organs/organ modification a human would need to be able to sustain itself without food or sleep?
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| Apr 5, 2021 at 10:00 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 5, 2021 at 9:37 | comment | added | elemtilas | Does this answer your question? Are these bio-tech implants possible? | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 5:22 | answer | added | Sachin | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 2:14 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Apr 4, 2021 at 19:46 | vote | accept | Von Spee | ||
| Apr 4, 2021 at 19:22 | comment | added | GrumpyYoungMan | As MikeScott alluded to, the querent could look into the peculiar sleep patterns used by some birds. They are able to sleep with half their brain at a time while keeping watch for predators or even while in-flight during migrations. See, for example: birds.cornell.edu/k12/do-birds-sleep | |
| Apr 4, 2021 at 18:53 | answer | added | DKNguyen | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 4, 2021 at 18:32 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @MikeScott I think it's debated whether sleep is fundamentally essential or whether it's a flaw that evolution can find it's way out of. Presumably two brains serving alternate duty could do the trick, but that has other costs such as energy and a split individuality being among them. | |
| Apr 4, 2021 at 18:32 | history | edited | Von Spee | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 4, 2021 at 18:27 | answer | added | Boričanin | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 4, 2021 at 18:24 | comment | added | Mike Scott | Without sleep is very problematic. All animals sleep, including ones like sharks and swifts for whom it’s extremely inconvenient, and so it’s clearly essential and evolution can’t remove the need. The best you can do is probably for different parts of their brains to sleep at different times, like swifts. | |
| Apr 4, 2021 at 18:18 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | Define "lengthy periods of time". People have gone without food or sleep for surprisingly long periods, but that's not a trick that anyone's managed with water. | |
| Apr 4, 2021 at 18:18 | review | First posts | |||
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| Apr 4, 2021 at 18:13 | history | asked | Von Spee | CC BY-SA 4.0 |