Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by yourkin 3190 days ago
Induced exhaustion is one way to test it, yes. Can't say from the article if they ruled it out. Correlation of the rest pattern with a day-night cycle does not necessarily imply that the "sleep-like" state is indeed sleep, and not just a power-down low-metabolical wait-state used for the bio-chemistry to catch up after a day of activity is over.