Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
How Does Neuronal Activity Drive Cognitive Changes?
Neurons can run out of fuel and as a result, they stop firing. Feeling now actually has an energetic component because the energy is also supplied by the body. When something really startles us, for example, what we see is it drives up metabolism, drives up neural activity, and we have a strong feeling. It rises to consciousness. This is again, why computation and cognition are radically different processes. And sometimes events can suddenly cause that energy to shift, cause energy to go from one part of the brain to somewhere else.
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