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I'm not sure how you can rule out reading burning calories. Our brains burn more calories than the rest of our bodies, and taxing a brain more oughta burn more.
by forgotmypw 7y ago
I'm not sure how you can rule out reading burning calories. Our brains burn more calories than the rest of our bodies, and taxing a brain more oughta burn more.
- kaffeemitsahne 7y agoI'm reminded of finding out very recently that professional chess players burn a lot of calories.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoLooks like the brain will burn 110cal/pound/day. So an average brain weight of 3lbs means 330cal/day total. Hard for me to believe this number can increase to 10x that amount if we're to believe chess grandmasters are burning 6000cal/day (let's say 2300cal for the rest of the body, thus 3700cal for the brain). 6000 calories being the figure thrown around if you google it. Sounds a bit like bullshit to me that a chess player can burn as many calories as a professional cyclist on an all-day race.
- forgotmypw 7y agoHave you ever put your finger on a CPU which has been pegged for a couple of minutes?
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoI'm sure it does, but even in a coma it burns something like 1200 calories a day. There's seems to be a pretty narrow window between the baseline and maximum.
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