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Voted the OP back up, cause I think it's really just a poor choice of diction. The brain DOES consume a lot of your body's total energy budget. Like roughly 20%
by icegreentea 16y ago
Voted the OP back up, cause I think it's really just a poor choice of diction. The brain DOES consume a lot of your body's total energy budget. Like roughly 20% when resting, and it goes up when thinking harder [1]. Granted, compared to supercomputers, we might have godly energy efficiency, but when our source of power isn't a 240V outlet, but food, then we have to evaluate the actual energy consumption a bit different.
[1] http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JacquelineLing.shtml http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JacquelineLing.shtml
- VladRussian 16y agothanks for the link. "Einstein's brain weighed only 1,230 grams, which is less than the average adult male brain (about 1,400 grams). .... However, the density of neurons in Einstein's brain was greater. In other words, Einstein was able to pack more neurons in a given area of cortex." Personally for me, that completely confirms my theories. Moore's Law for the brain :)