Michael Pollan describes cooking as externalizing digestion. The cooking breaks down food first, so we don't have to chew as much, and our stomachs don't have to work as hard to digest. Cooking, then, is like building a second gut.https://twitter.com/collinofzion/status/1249839629898903553 …
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And the efficiency of cooking allowed us to build a better first brain: "We had all this extra energy that we weren't using for digestion and where did it go? It went to build these big brains" - Michael Pollan
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tw niche tweet if we build second brains, where will all our extra energy go? (the energy currently going to cognition?)
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Lovely to think: it ought to be something as difficult for us to imagine now, as it would be to imagine having modern brains before we had them
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