<p>Is the brain a purely energy conserving system that creates behaviours for conserving the energy distributed to the brain, based on the input of sensory information that our bodies take in? </p>

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2014-02-01T22:39:31.480Z
But anything that leads up to death is all about spending tonnes of energy e.g. trying not to die.
JackLaurence
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2014-02-01T23:30:05.733Z
I don't understand how you've been answering my question if you didn't understand any of it; it's just a bit of speculation. 2. That doesn't rule out its possibility, though. What if we did that because we actually conserve more by losing some?
JackLaurence
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2014-02-03T19:47:34.650Z
I think you be either alluding to or interested in Friston's free energy principle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principle
zergylord
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2014-02-05T13:32:02.330Z
Thanks, that's a really useful resource for me to keep occupied with, but I'm not talking about minimising the surprise (even though that could be an energy efficient behaviour); I am talking about some part of the brain that makes a tree of behaviours as an energy efficient response to whatever coded information the rest of the sensory system provides before hand, so that, overall, the brain is just an energy conserving system. The differences, based only on circumstance, or in the case of other animals, circumstance and different encoding of the senses.
JackLaurence
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Are our brains just energy conserving systems?
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# Are our brains just energy conserving systems?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-02-01)

Is the brain a purely energy conserving system that creates behaviours for conserving the energy distributed to the brain, based on the input of sensory information that our bodies take in?

**Tags:** neuroscience, behaviorism

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: But anything that leads up to death is all about spending tonnes of energy e.g. trying not to die.  
> **username_0**: I don't understand how you've been answering my question if you didn't understand any of it; it's just a bit of speculation. 2. That doesn't rule out its possibility, though. What if we did that because we actually conserve more by losing some?  
> **username_1**: I think you be either alluding to or interested in Friston's free energy principle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principle  
> **username_0**: Thanks, that's a really useful resource for me to keep occupied with, but I'm not talking about minimising the surprise (even though that could be an energy efficient behaviour); I am talking about some part of the brain that makes a tree of behaviours as an energy efficient response to whatever coded information the rest of the sensory system provides before hand, so that, overall, the brain is just an energy conserving system. The differences, based only on circumstance, or in the case of other animals, circumstance and different encoding of the senses.  

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