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George: I saw another article recently about IBM using 
> an "artificial blood" system to cool a computer, 
> by analogy with the way the brain operates. 
> I think it said the human brain only works on 20 watts!-Energy conservation! But it is said the brain takes 1/4-1/5 of all our caloric output per day.

]]> https://agnosticweb.com/index.php?id=13913 https://agnosticweb.com/index.php?id=13913 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:51:34 +0000 IntroductionDavid Turell Brain garbage removal (reply) That's pretty much the theory of the purpose of sleep 
that I've long found the most convincing, 
from my own experience. So it's nice to have 
some experimental corroboration.-I saw another article recently about IBM using 
an "artificial blood" system to cool a computer, 
by analogy with the way the brain operates. 
I think it said the human brain only works on 20 watts!

]]> https://agnosticweb.com/index.php?id=13911 https://agnosticweb.com/index.php?id=13911 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:13:26 +0000 IntroductionGeorge Jelliss Brain garbage removal This may be the reason for sleep. Clean up the mess every day after a hard period of thinking. A new cleanup system is found:-http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/brains-flush-toxic-waste-in-sleep-including-alzheimers-linked-protein-study-of-mice-finds/2013/10/19/9af49e40-377a-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines

]]> https://agnosticweb.com/index.php?id=13908 https://agnosticweb.com/index.php?id=13908 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 14:24:33 +0000 IntroductionDavid Turell