My model says that a lot of the changing occurs by gradient descent, which can be interrupted randomly without causing problems. And there’s enough redundancy that the reorganization part can be interrupted without the core information being removed completely from the brain, and the redundancy will be replenished (one of copies I imagine is “locked” while the reorganization happens, and is later reorganized later with another copy “locked”). I also expect this replenishing can happen during awakeness, though not as ideally as when asleep.
But I will also note that forgetting is a thing that happens, which is indistinguishable from “data corruption”. We’re actually quite good at forgetting things.
My model says that a lot of the changing occurs by gradient descent, which can be interrupted randomly without causing problems. And there’s enough redundancy that the reorganization part can be interrupted without the core information being removed completely from the brain, and the redundancy will be replenished (one of copies I imagine is “locked” while the reorganization happens, and is later reorganized later with another copy “locked”). I also expect this replenishing can happen during awakeness, though not as ideally as when asleep.
But I will also note that forgetting is a thing that happens, which is indistinguishable from “data corruption”. We’re actually quite good at forgetting things.