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• blandfordforever@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Contrary to popular belief, we’re all profoundly stupid. Even the smartest among us spend enormous effort in their struggle to comprehend our surroundings.

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  • esc27@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At least half of us are below average.

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    • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You mean the median? :3

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    • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It can’t be that many.

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    • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s quite a reduction and profoundly stupid. First off, the simple fact that-- WOAH, there’s a wall here??

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• pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe the brain will one day invent something more tiresome than watching reddit users exchange tautologies.

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  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m doing my part!

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  • Pips@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    xkcd.com/703/

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.

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• papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fun fact, the average adult brain also has a credit cards worth of plastic inside. So that bacon has some company!

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you joking?

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sadly, no. About 0.5% of our brain mass is microplastics.

      pirg.org/…/new-research-finds-plastic-in-human-br…

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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. Should have sayd energy.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hi. I’m just curious what part of the world you’re from that light bulbs are called a globe?

      Cheers.

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  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mmm, forbidden bacon

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  • PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Prions are just like seasoning right?

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• RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re made out of meat.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg

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  • Morphit@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All the way through?

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    • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fitting, really, to be a dream to meat.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

    www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/…/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.

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    • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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• bjorney@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Brain uses more wattage than a lightbulb, unless we are counting incandescent bulbs because it makes the stat seem more impressive.

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  • SuperIce@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That phrase first came out when incandescent bulbs were the most common, so they consumed like 60W vs 7W for an equivalent LED bulb. The brain is somewhere around 20W.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t give a damn about Lemmy points, but you just said essentially the same thing as the above commenter and the Lemmy points are diametrically opposed. I love it!

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    • bjorney@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah and LED bulbs were the norm 15-20 years ago. my point is this is a repost of a Reddit repost of a Tumblr comment that was reposting a factoid that was already wrong when it was originally posted 5-6 years ago.

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  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was estimated back when incandescent was standard.

    Keep in mind that’s not accounting for energy consumed from neurons burning oxygen, which accounts for 20% of a human body’s consumption.

    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK28194/

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      20% of your bodies energy is about 20 Watts.

      Normal-weight humans burn about 2200 kilocalories a day, which is about 9.2 megajoules. There are 8640 seconds in a day, so that works out to roughly 100 joules per second, or 100 Watt.

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• P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You momma is FAT (with water and salt)

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  • espentan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    File Allocation Table?

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah your momma’s so big she’s not even FAT she’s exFAT and can store files up to 120 petabytes

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• thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  OP has a baby in their head

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• nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I Upvoted just for the tapioca mention

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  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tapioca does sound good.

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• weariedfae@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But poltergeist cat is real!

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• Heavybell@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aren’t the eyes teeeechnically part of the brain?

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