Brains burn an IMMENSE amount of fuel. This is why most species do not develop intelligence. Intelligence has to pay it's own fair in increased calorie acquisition...which doesn't typically happen. https://twitter.com/unhygenicmacro/status/1004514754352861186 …
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2/ By the way, this is why fMRI works. We can watch sections of the brain totally deplete local reserves of glucose IN REAL TIME. Computation is expensive, yo!
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Oxygen is used to metabolize the glucose, I think, yes?
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also, dude, I just noticed your username "unhygenicmacro" Turns out I used that domain name for a sort of news.ycombinator website in The Powers of The Earth, as a joke on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygienic_macro …
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> I stole it hah! :P > my avi oh, I saw the lambda and knew that it was likely a reference to the calculus. Anyway, cool! Thanks for the tribute. : )
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