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  • everything is a clock
    • beside the "official" ones e.g. a mechanical watch, using quartz or even water, we tend to rely on any external signal to synchronize ourselves hence when something that usually goes to a certain pace goes faster we most likely adapt our behavior to match this, hence going faster too
      • e.g. eating while listening to an audio recording of a voice at twice the pace one will probably eat faster without necessarily being conscious of it
  • the mind is just the network of matter, as physical units, we have the cheapest, or least amount of energy required, control of
    • inspired by Supersizing
    • even though the brain requires about 20% of energy to function, it is a "sunk cost" anyway
      • thus the most energetically efficient simulation tool available
      • yet not free so probably irremediably leading to TreeOfKnowledge#SelfUnderstandingPartOfHomeostase explaining why organisms keeps on building "mirrors" (physical, social, technical, etc)
        • one could consider the budget spend on medicine overall, rather than in basic energy supply and agriculture, as a indicator in that direction
        • note that this view could be confirmed also through language exploration in babies (cf studies mentioned recently in France Culture WithoutNotesJanuary12#BernardGolse)
    • hence the fundamental consequences for tools
      • and thus leading to the emergence of information manipulating tools in particular, e.g.
    • and for possible replacements
      • e.g. including the cost of installation and maintenance in neuroprosthetics or cognitive prostheses
      • see Mathematics#MachineLearning
      • the amount of processing power a system have might thus not be a sufficient metrics, rather the processing power per energy expenditure and thus how cheaply a simulation can be run to facilitate decision making
    • one could overall consider individuality and cognition as an economical function
      • everything that is not transparent and that we can change for a very small cost, we consider it "ourselves"
      • see TreeOfKnowledge for autonomy, autopoeisis and structural coupling
    • further than simply the binary (possible or not) ability to leverage a resource, it seems that it is more the cost of establishing (or removing) a network link to it that makes a difference
      • the inability to use that resource could be simplified to a cost of +∞
      • consequently ObjectsExoBrain and MyCloudTransition would have to be revised
        • so rather than having high expectations regarding a new possibility, one could consider how costly it is to establish the link to that resource
        • instead using a remote server, the value is more in the tools or processes established that allow for "easy" transfers (easy in the sense of not requiring a lot of action or thoughts)
      • inspired by reconsidering Seedea:Content/Newconcepts#PXE thanks to Newconcepts
        • note that most concepts in Seedea:Content/Newconcepts#Technology before this one are very related to this energy/economy/network problematic
          • PPW, PUE, Energy slave, EROEI, Thermoeconomics, Dataflow programming, Cognitive commons
      • which also seems to be the pattern between institutions
        • i.e. the first transaction is costly but then through repetition automation becomes a rational investment as a threshold is reached
          • once automation is in place then the cost of transaction suddenly and radically drops opening up new usages that were until then impossible by being too costly
        • e.g. private information requiring warrants or court orders from state agencies through individual cases then establishment of a link then automation then recurring smaller requests
        • consider also Ronal Coase seminal 1973 article Wikipedia:The Nature of the Firm
    • encoding from STM to LTM (cf related OurPIM:Communication/Logs of the 9 of August 2011) consequently also accounts for an investment decision
      • which pieces of information or processes will have significant impact of the future to be worth optimizing by having either faster access to and which have little
      • the biological way is most likely a simple, yet efficient, summation process
    • overall "working harder" or "learning more" are fallacies, it remains a decision to use a more efficient way and discard its alternatives, thus of making a decision
      • either consciously and relying on verified information or subconsciously by maintaining the current process
      • i.e. some thing have to be removed or avoided, either in breath or depth, here my OwnConcepts#Epistemotaxis could be useful to step back
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