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i think you're extrapolating a philosophical implication from dennett's phrase that was not there to begin with. he doesn't say that people would sleep forever because that's how they want to experience life, he's simply saying that from a scientific perspective it's easier on a complex system to sleep all the time, so he criticizes the study he mentions because it assumes that animals work most efficiently and stay out of trouble best when awake and he's saying that that this assumption is unfounded.