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And everybody knows that if you deplete your brain power before going to sleep your brain explodes... On a serious note, your brain will be ok, it is a fine pa
by yomism 11y ago
And everybody knows that if you deplete your brain power before going to sleep your brain explodes...
On a serious note, your brain will be ok, it is a fine pattern matching machines with adaptative filters to discard uninteresting data (did you notice that sound of blood heartbeating in your ears?... that's filtering doing its work).
And also visually our brain is very good at ignoring data, search for the gorilla suit experiment.
- teddyh 11y agoStraw man. I did not say that using brain power is inherently bad. What I maybe should have said is that I prefer to use all my brain power on reading the article and pondering its implications rather than (unconsciously) wasting much of it on ignoring distracting ads.
- enimodas 11y agoIt doesn't explode, but it does get tired. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tough-choices-how-making/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tough-choices-how-...