It sure feels like I use more energy when I’m thinking hard (but it usually doesn’t give me headaches).
I’m having trouble reconciling this with the evidence that the brain uses a constant amount of energy.
The “wasted motion” explanation sounds close, but I sometimes feel drained after a long period of writing code that seemed to involve unusually little wasted motion.
I expect that part of the explanation is my S1 telling me I’m reaching diminishing returns to spending more time on this task.
Thinking hard correlates with feelings of stress, but I suspect they’re both caused by having difficult problems, rather than thinking hard causing stress.
It sure feels like I use more energy when I’m thinking hard (but it usually doesn’t give me headaches).
I’m having trouble reconciling this with the evidence that the brain uses a constant amount of energy.
The “wasted motion” explanation sounds close, but I sometimes feel drained after a long period of writing code that seemed to involve unusually little wasted motion.
I expect that part of the explanation is my S1 telling me I’m reaching diminishing returns to spending more time on this task.
Thinking hard correlates with feelings of stress, but I suspect they’re both caused by having difficult problems, rather than thinking hard causing stress.