Energy efficiency is like a budget

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A note for The Half-Lesson, "Your Brain Is Not for Thinking," in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Some context from page 5‌ is:

You can think about energy efficiency like a budget.

Body-budgeting regions are shown in dark gray.

I introduced the idea of a "budget" for your body in my previous book, How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain.[1] The scientific term for body-budgeting is allostasis.

The figure on this page shows the body-budgeting regions (dark gray) within the human brain's interoceptive system.[2]

See also


References

  1. Barrett, Lisa Feldman. 2017. How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, chapter 4. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  2. Kleckner, Ian R., Jiahe Zhang, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Lorena Chanes, Chengie Xia, W. Kyle Simmons, Karen S. Quigley, Brad C. Dickerson, and Lisa Feldman Barrett. 2017. "Evidence For a Large-Scale Brain System Supporting Allostasis and Interoception in Humans." Nature Human Behavior 1 (5): 1–14.