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    Questions about the book "Why we sleep?"

    There are many sides to the issue. Medicine is not a scientific endeavor, first of all. Research medicine is, but social/therapeutic medicine is not; it's clinical. "Do no harm" is not a scientific credo, and cannot be. That being said, those who advance the field are willing to that the risk in...
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    What Are the Diverse Topics Covered by Lincoln Stoller?

    I have a varied background in physics and biology learning from Charlie Townes, Steve Weinberg, Eugene Wigner, Ilya Prigogine, and Jerry Lettvin among not so many others. I've worked in relativistic QM, many-body QM, QM phase transitions, brain science, cognitive psychology, Western and Eastern...
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    Questions about the book "Why we sleep?"

    I like Walker's book for the suggestions he makes. I'm a physicist now doing psychotherapy with a specialty in sleep. They say 75% of sleep problems are psychological yet the medical approach to sleep problems is almost entirely mechanical and symptom-focused. I used some of Walker's ideas to...