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Just over 7.6 billion minds will be active within one rotation of a 24hr clock.
That’s some serious calorie intake, with the average brain requiring between 400-500 calories per day that is a whole lot of noughts.
7,600,000,000 x 400 = 3.04e+12
While it is natural to assume and believe that we are independent operators, in control of our thoughts, navigating within a conscious decision making space, operating in a rich web of interaction with one another, it is worth considering the following;
Our common-sense notion of reality is that our senses; the eyes, ears, nose, and fingertips pick up objective reality, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Smells, sounds, and colours do not actually exist in the outside world, an Ant for example doesn’t know the colour blue and a tree isn’t aware of the feeling found from an orgasm.
https://benjaminbonetti.co.uk/blogs/news/what-is-reality-it-is-time-to-rethink-what-you-believe-to-be-true
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Just over 7.6 billion minds will be active within one rotation of a 24hr clock.
That’s some serious calorie intake, with the average brain requiring between 400-500 calories per day that is a whole lot of noughts.
7,600,000,000 x 400 = 3.04e+12
While it is natural to assume and believe that we are independent operators, in control of our thoughts, navigating within a conscious decision making space, operating in a rich web of interaction with one another, it is worth considering the following;
Our common-sense notion of reality is that our senses; the eyes, ears, nose, and fingertips pick up objective reality, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Smells, sounds, and colours do not actually exist in the outside world, an Ant for example doesn’t know the colour blue and a tree isn’t aware of the feeling found from an orgasm.
https://benjaminbonetti.co.uk/blogs/news/what-is-reality-it-is-time-to-rethink-what-you-believe-to-be-true