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  • I’m not a neurologist either, so take this with a huge grain of salt, but it seems that I’ve gone a bit deeper on the rabbit hole.

    AFAIK, “brain processing” seems to be mostly signal propagation. Our brains don’t work anything like the neural networks we use, but it seems to work like some kind of neural network, and “processing” being made by moving signals from one place to another is part of it.

    The one effect of sleep that I know of is exactly the kind of “environmental cleanup” necessary to make the electrical signals move faster. Now, there are certainly lots of other effects I don’t know of, and for all I know the speed could actually be bounded and all that sleep does is to keep it at the boundary. Also, “tired” is a very ambiguous word here. But still, I’d expect it to be important.