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Neanderthal Days

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Here in post-stroke Month 22 I am dreaming and sleeping a lot and that always makes me wonder, am I getting better or worse? Also it’s December, so the days are getting shorter now. With less sun I sometimes feel I must be like a Neanderthal—wanting to get up late and stay warm in my cave.

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    See The Importance of Imagination (or Lack Thereof) in Artificial, Human, and Quantum Decision-Making, Philos. Trans. Royal Society A 374 (2015) 20150097.

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    See generally, https://www.naturalnewsblogs.com/winter-hibernation-sad-may-normal-human-response/; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-94678/Tired-hungry-sad-Relax-youre-hibernating.html.

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Gustafson, K. (2019). Neanderthal Days. In: Reverberations of a Stroke. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12862-3_13

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