The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses | Quanta Magazine
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The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses | Quanta Magazine
When fed a chunk of information, a computer processes it in the same way on each occasion, whether it’s been at work for five minutes or five hours, whether it is located in a fluorescent lit office or positioned next to a sunny window, whether it’s near other computers or is the only computer in the room. This is how computers operate.
But the same
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