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Low-Watt Neurons

By The Daily Dish

Sep 12 2009, 9:17 AM ET

Jonah Lehrer marvels:

This computational efficiency is the single most astonishing fact of the mammalian brain. Here you are, reading these words, daydreaming about lunch, processing the richness of reality, thinking about tomorrow, and your brain requires less energy than a low wattage lightbulb. Evolution is an impressive engineer.



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