Thoughtforms Life

This is a ~57 minute talk titled "Energy Constraints and Tradeoffs: the mitochondrial daily energy expenditure MDEE study" by Martin Picard (https://www.neurology.columbia.edu/profile/martin-picard-phd) and a brief set of ideas by me at the end, presaging a full discussion of this for our next meeting.

I mentioned these 2 papers:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303264722001435

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bies.201900245



CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Mitochondria energy tradeoffs

(52:14) Scarcity coordinates biology

(54:44) Anthrobot aging evidence

(56:31) Follow-up ideas



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