Experience shows, that the general population – and people in power especially – are inherently bad at learning from history or even their own mistakes.
Training. Though, amount of training differs from person to person. For me, it’s about 3 days of being woken at the same time and i wake up a few minutes before the clock. Looking at the clock before you sleep and thinking until when you want to sleep, may help adjust your internal clock.
The neurons themselves? Because human axons are already as small as can be; they sometimes missfire because of this (brain is built around that, no worries).
“So in reversion of argument, since it’s okay to spy on you because you have nothing to hide, spying on criminals is not ok, because they do have something to hide?”