Humans seek to live a life that is tightly bounded in power output (about 150±50 watts by my estimate), but unbounded in time. Live for ever at lightbulb intensity. For comparison, strenuous exercise is about 700W and elite Olympic level power output can briefly hit 2 kW.
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does anything besides physical activity produce such spikes? I find it hard to imagine even extreme mental exertion could get above ~200W, though people certainly seem to avoid it similarly
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The two may be correlated... Sure future medicine, blah blah. But today it appears that most "aging" damage is basically the byproducts of leaky mitochondria. Pushing them harder just generates more leak byproducts faster. Hence, eg, life extension through reduced calories
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But of course reduced calories is reduced power output. And the converse, increased power translates directly to shorter time. As of today, there DOES seem to be an energy limit, not just a power limit. Nick Lane is THE author to read about this. FASCINATING!!!
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Hmm.. I always thought i was trying to do as much as i can not limiting, but expanding my power output.. Hmm.. I'll have reflect/meditate/sleep-over/slow-walk-around on this...
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life as a quest for progressively more efficient dissipation of energy
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