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oroboros commented on the word metabolic price of cognitive capacity
"If a biological brain wants to develop a new cognitive capacity, it must pay a price. The currency in which the price is paid is sugar. Additional energy must be made available and more glucose must be burned to develop and stabilize this new capacity."
Thomas Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel, p. 43
July 11, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word metabolic price of cognitive capacity
Wow. My brain must be really friggin' stabilized, since I'm eating a Pop-Tart for lunch.
July 11, 2009
oroboros commented on the word metabolic price of cognitive capacity
That's one Pop-Tart more than I ate for lunch! Good goin' c_b. Must be why my brain's thumpin' like a washing machine in the spin cycle. *holds head*
July 28, 2009