I guess this makes sense -- a brain is gonna do brain stuff. The only difference is that we're not present to witness it.

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doginasuit 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It's been understood for quite some time that we only experience a small part of brain activity. Unfortunately that small part is where everything useful happens.

	▲	Kim_Bruning 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Or is the small part the bit where the least useful stuff happens? ;-) A bit more seriously, the brain actually uses a significant chunk of the body's energy budget (no matter how efficient it is relative to human made equipment). So evolutionarily, it doesn't make sense unless it's doing something exceptionally useful.
	▲	satvikpendem 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		No, definitely not. Our consciousness is honestly an afterthought, as the brain processes mountains of information that does not even get to out conscious level yet is arguably more useful than anything we primitive primates can think of.
	▲	avadodin 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's the part that makes everything useful happen but most of everything useful happens in unconscious parts of the brain and even outside of the brain.