From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Aug 10 23:00:00 1998 Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Path: biosci!agate!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!atlantis From: atlantis@netcom.com (JJ Miranda) Subject: Re: Energy of a thought Message-ID: Organization: Netcom On-Line Services X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <01bdc4fa$69daffb0$5407f79d@pmed073> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 06:53:01 GMT Lines: 22 Sender: atlantis@netcom3.netcom.com Dear Josef, One problem: it's impossible to quantitate and measure one "thought." Heck, biologists don't even know what exactly a thought is... However, there has been a great deal of study regarding what happens when someone thinks about something. It's not the study of one thought per se, but rather the study of the thinking process. During the thinking process, certain activities (neuron firing, etc.) occur. Try looking up some of the studies done on brain field potentials and the work on the imaging of those activities and that might tell you more. Sincere regards, JJ Miranda Josef Riegebauer (riegebau@avl.com) wrote: : Has anybody an idea of how much energy or power consumption a normal human : thought produces or needs ? Any literature or book reference on that topic : ? : Regards, : Josef .