Showing posts with label brain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brain. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 May 2026

Fluid Thoughts

Your Brain is surrounded by spinal fluid, a fluid that is mostly made of water. The Brain floats in this fluid and is surrounded by it so there is reduced pressure on the base of the brain.  The fluid surrounds the brain and the spine and helps to absorb shocks and to 

Your Brain is also 70% water. 
Your thoughts and emotions emerge from water because your brain is mostly water and it is surrounded by water. 

Friday, 4 July 2025

A Tea for an AI sketch

I asked some artificial intelligence systems how much energy they use when summoned to draw an image. 

They all came to the conclusion that is varies from 100th of a kilowatt-hour to one tenth of a kilowatt-hour. 

It takes AI roughly enough energy to heat up a cup of coffee to make one image
~image generated by artificial intelligence (chatGPT) 

The AI systems agreed that the human brain uses about half a kilowatt-hour per day. The human brain is constantly processing image and sound information and controlling the body at the same time. The Human Brain does more processing work with less energy. It is a whole little world powered by an egg and cress sandwich. It hosts consciousness itself and countless thoughts.