The Overfitted Brain- Dreams Evolved to Assist Generalization

TL;DR — Argues that dreams exist to keep the brain from overfitting to daily experience, borrowing the idea of noise injection from machine learning.

How much weight it carries: A hypothesis paper (published in Patterns in 2021). Provocative and testable, not yet established.

Where this came from

• Will Manidis’s “most underrated PDF” thread, July 2023 — routing record: The Most Underrated PDF on the Internet (July 2023)

18 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.