Comments on: Civilization founded on beer? http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2698 Exploring what it means to be thinking matter Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:06:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Doru http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2698&cpage=1#comment-12072 Doru Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:03:17 +0000 http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2698#comment-12072 Hi, It seems to me that the whole animal life on this planet is run on the most concentrated fuel we can get from plants: glucose. The emerging of the human mind and the ability to distillate alcohol from sugar may have something in common: Minds are very expensive systems to run so in order to slow them down, humans figure out that alcohol certainly helps. Fascinating stuff! Hi,
It seems to me that the whole animal life on this planet is run on the most concentrated fuel we can get from plants: glucose.
The emerging of the human mind and the ability to distillate alcohol from sugar may have something in common: Minds are very expensive systems to run so in order to slow them down, humans figure out that alcohol certainly helps.

Fascinating stuff!

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