SMART SHORTCUTS
Dear Smart Planet,
brain's evolution is wonderful! Our mind, throughout time, had to cope with ever demanding challenges. It had to grow and adapt to a complex and ever changing environment, solving problems of all sorts. In such course, it found a way to optimize its own resources thorugh smart patterns. Intelligence, as it is, can be defined as an evolving capacity to think and save energy at the same time. When we think, the neuronal connections, thanks to tens of thousands of synaptic buttons, can choose the most economic pattern to reach a solution. It's this ability that allowed us to improve our skills. The problem of having more performing brains in the future is thus not limited by a possible shortage of energetic juice. It's true the brain consumes a lot of calories and a scientist burns more calories than a professional sportsman, but the brain has still a long way to go. Einstein said we use a little percentage of our brain. What he meant is that the power of mind may find unexpected ways to further evolve, and it may succeed in doing it even with a smaller amount of energy too. The brain is way too complex and unknown to us, to let us draw a conclusion. The most interesting point is that in its rapid evolution, he bacame so smart to be unable to explain itself. It's a paradox. And behind this paradox, the meaning of life is probably buried.
Carlo Muttoni
