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The expensive brain — thought costs energy
the mind
The brain is about 2 percent of body mass but burns about 20 percent of resting energy (a ratio of 10, sealed). Awareness is paid for in glucose and oxygen - a steep local order bought with a larger disorder. Rests on thermodynamics and biology.
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Narrow Highway — the mind
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card_mind_expensive_brain
address
WIT.codex.FCT/the-expensive-brain-thought-costs-energy/REF.WITNESSED@narrow-highway
adjoining cards
- part of → The mind — matter aware of itself — a pillar of the mind (The expensive brain)
- connects at → Thermodynamics — the arrow and the one end — the brain's energy budget - a local order paid for by the second law
- connects at → Biology — life is self-replicating chemistry — the brain is metabolizing tissue
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