I just feel like talking to myself today.
I have not had much to say since I last wrote, because, well, I haven't had much time to think. This worries me because I usually think a lot.
According to the copy of New Scientist that has been neglected on my desk for a week, the idle mind takes up a lot more energy than the working one. It actually calms down a lot more in terms of brain activity when it has an assigned task to do. That is, all the sugar I eat gets used up more by my daydreaming than it does trying to figure out my MATLAB. And NOT because I daydream more :P Also, everyone's brain goes to this default setting of daydreaming when we have nothing better to think about... like an internal game of solitaire. Apparently this is to consolidate and organise all the information we've received during the day, and it takes a lot of effort to make new connections.
That doesn't explain why I get so tired from trying to read my lecture notes though. Surely I would get even more tired in pursuing my self-reflective thought processes that are attributed to this default circuit of daydreaming, since I do believe mine are in over-drive compared to other people. And yet I do it so effortlessly.
I have not had much to say since I last wrote, because, well, I haven't had much time to think. This worries me because I usually think a lot.
According to the copy of New Scientist that has been neglected on my desk for a week, the idle mind takes up a lot more energy than the working one. It actually calms down a lot more in terms of brain activity when it has an assigned task to do. That is, all the sugar I eat gets used up more by my daydreaming than it does trying to figure out my MATLAB. And NOT because I daydream more :P Also, everyone's brain goes to this default setting of daydreaming when we have nothing better to think about... like an internal game of solitaire. Apparently this is to consolidate and organise all the information we've received during the day, and it takes a lot of effort to make new connections.
That doesn't explain why I get so tired from trying to read my lecture notes though. Surely I would get even more tired in pursuing my self-reflective thought processes that are attributed to this default circuit of daydreaming, since I do believe mine are in over-drive compared to other people. And yet I do it so effortlessly.
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