THE WEIGHT Of A THOUGHT (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Expedition Publishers, 2026
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Paperback. Right now, as you read this sentence, something is happening inside your skull that most people never stop to consider. Ions are crossing membranes. Molecules are being built and broken down. Energy is being spent, in real, measurable units, on the specific act of understanding these words.The Weight of a Thought asks the question that sounds impossible until you realize physicists have already started answering it: does thinking cost something physical? Not metaphorically. Literally, in joules, in the same units that describe a falling stone or a dying star.Elara Voskamp takes you from a 1961 physics paper that proved erasing a single bit of information has an unavoidable energy cost, through the electrochemical machinery of the neuron, into a 2024 discovery so strange it rewrites what we thought we knew about the speed of human thought. Along the way you will meet the scientists who built this field piece by piece, the instruments that let us glimpse a mind from the outside, and the genuine, unresolved disputes that make this frontier science rather than settled fact.You will learn why your brain runs on about twenty watts, roughly a dim light bulb, and why nearly half of that power goes toward a process that looks remarkably like erasing a memory the instant after it forms. You will learn why a large language model can burn through more electricity in an hour than your brain uses in years, and what that gap reveals about the extraordinary efficiency evolution built into three pounds of tissue. You will learn why a Nobel laureate physicist proposed that consciousness might involve quantum effects in the brain, why another physicist did the math and called the idea impossible, and why the argument still is not over.This is not a book that oversells a tidy answer. It is a book that respects your intelligence enough to show you exactly how much we know, how we know it, and where the real edges of the map still are. Every claim is drawn from published, peer reviewed research, named and dated, so you can go further if a single chapter grips you the way it gripped its author.If you have ever wondered whether a thought is truly nothing, or whether it might be something the universe can, in principle, weigh, this book will change how you understand the three pounds of matter making that very wondering possible. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798235362413
- Título
- THE WEIGHT Of A THOUGHT (Paperback)
- Autor
- Elara Voskamp
- Editorial
- Expedition Publishers
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798235362413
Right now, as you read this sentence, something is happening inside your skull that most people never stop to consider. Ions are crossing membranes. Molecules are being built and broken down. Energy is being spent, in real, measurable units, on the specific act of understanding these words.
The Weight of a Thought asks the question that sounds impossible until you realize physicists have already started answering it: does thinking cost something physical? Not metaphorically. Literally, in joules, in the same units that describe a falling stone or a dying star.
Elara Voskamp takes you from a 1961 physics paper that proved erasing a single bit of information has an unavoidable energy cost, through the electrochemical machinery of the neuron, into a 2024 discovery so strange it rewrites what we thought we knew about the speed of human thought. Along the way you will meet the scientists who built this field piece by piece, the instruments that let us glimpse a mind from the outside, and the genuine, unresolved disputes that make this frontier science rather than settled fact.
You will learn why your brain runs on about twenty watts, roughly a dim light bulb, and why nearly half of that power goes toward a process that looks remarkably like erasing a memory the instant after it forms. You will learn why a large language model can burn through more electricity in an hour than your brain uses in years, and what that gap reveals about the extraordinary efficiency evolution built into three pounds of tissue. You will learn why a Nobel laureate physicist proposed that consciousness might involve quantum effects in the brain, why another physicist did the math and called the idea impossible, and why the argument still is not over.
This is not a book that oversells a tidy answer. It is a book that respects your intelligence enough to show you exactly how much we know, how we know it, and where the real edges of the map still are. Every claim is drawn from published, peer reviewed research, named and dated, so you can go further if a single chapter grips you the way it gripped its author.
If you have ever wondered whether a thought is truly nothing, or whether it might be something the universe can, in principle, weigh, this book will change how you understand the three pounds of matter making that very wondering possible.
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