If we are talking facts, neurons don't use electricity, it's a cascade of released ion potentials. Thats why nerves are so much slower than electrical signals.
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He should have said "power" not electricity
Humans dissipate power in the range of old tungsten lamps - on the order of 100W at rest, brains use about 20% of that, so 20W - about the same as an energy efficient globe
Hi. I'm just curious what part of the world you're from that light bulbs are called a globe?
Cheers.
Yeah we call them light globes in Australia, as well as bulbs
Thanks. Never heard it before
It's really both, neurons communicate electrochemically. Neurons establish a voltage difference across their membrane, typically positive outside, negative inside, by concentrating ions on one side or the other. In a single neuron, the action potential (signal) results in the electric polarity of the cell membrane switching to negative outside, positive inside, with the change in gradient cascading down the length of the axon as ions are allowed to flow across the membrane by voltage-gated ion channels. After depolarization, ions are actively and selectively pumped to either side of the membrane, repolarizing it.
There's a lot more to it than that but it's 100% charge dependent. The change in charge is mediated by the flow of ions across a membrane instead of the flow of electrons through a conductor, hence why it's slower.
I Upvoted just for the tapioca mention
Tapioca does sound good.
Fun fact, the average adult brain also has a credit cards worth of plastic inside. So that bacon has some company!
Are you joking?
Sadly, no. About 0.5% of our brain mass is microplastics.
https://pirg.org/articles/new-research-finds-plastic-in-human-brains/
Once I put my head up to the EFTPOS machine and the payment actually went through
EFTPOS is the fastest payment system in the world for identifying Australians on the internet. If you need to camouflage, you can use "card reader" instead. I don't know when you'd need to camouflage like that, but these are interesting times.
Additionally, the average brain is about 1300 grams. 0.5% of 1300 is 6.5 grams, and plastic credit cards weigh roughly 5 grams.
0.5% is really hard for me to visualize. A credit card in everyone's brain is unfortunately easy.....
CARD DECLINEDAren't the eyes teeeechnically part of the brain?
Contrary to popular belief, we're all profoundly stupid. Even the smartest among us spend enormous effort in their struggle to comprehend our surroundings.
At least half of us are below average.
If we're talking about IQ, than no. An IQ between 85 and 115 is considered average. This entails 68% of the population. So, only 32% of people are not average and only 16% are below average.
You mean the median? :3
It can't be that many.
It's not. I assure you there are far more outliers on the low end.
I endeavour to be as stupid as possible so more people can be above average.
America thanks you for your service.
But I'm sure there are more people with 200+ IQ than with <0.
I understand that you're saying there are more incredible geniuses than full on retards.
However, IQ scores are a normal distribution with an arbitrarily defined mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.
So, IQ scores of 0 or 200 are both 6.6 standard deviations from the mean. If IQ is truly a normal distribution, you'd expect the number of people with IQ scores <= 0 and the number with scores >= 200 to be exactly the same, simply because this is how the scores are defined.
If you try to look up what proportion of the population falls outside 6.6 standard deviations, the z-tables don't go out this far. It's essentially 0% (0/100) but how many is it out of 8 billion?
If IQ is truly a normal distribution
It's not. Here's a list containing a number of people above 200.
However, no-one has a negative IQ.
Maybe the brain will one day invent something more tiresome than watching reddit users exchange tautologies.
I'm doing my part!
I often describe myself as "3lbs of mostly fat piloting a meat mech." To the point that my wife sometimes refers to injuries as malfunctions/damage to her meat mech.
I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.
Mmm, forbidden bacon
Prions are just like seasoning right?
But poltergeist cat is real!
They're made out of meat.
I really don't like that version because they just look like us and I don't think they should. Especially with the part about tongues. It doesn't really make sense.
This is the original short story by Terry Bisson that it's based upon.
https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
I don't know if anyone has done one with CG robots or something, but they should. Bisson must have been inspired by The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem, one of my all-time favorite books. Incidentally, I recently found out that book was an inspiration for Will Wright when he came up with SimCity.
For what it's worth, it's a bit nostalgic seeing that "look" of 90s film making and I grew up sorta near that diner.
It was a student film as well, and I appreciate how both good and bad the acting is. Why would the one with authority be in a band-leader getup, if not because in their fractured understanding of us it would make sense?
Dunno, lots of small interesting touches to it.
All the way through?
Fitting, really, to be a dream to meat.
You momma is FAT (with water and salt)
File Allocation Table?
Yeah your momma’s so big she’s not even FAT she’s exFAT and can store files up to 120 petabytes
Yo mama's like exFAT; she's got no permissions so anyone can access anything and her low requirements mean she gets embedded everywhere.
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