What happens to the energy that is invested into our imagination? For instance, I imagined the vivid Times Square, NY’s street view in my mind. In order to do that I need to have had some kind of food intake or energy intake in any way that my body would accept and be able to break the food down in the presence of Oxygen with resultant bi-products such as readily usable Glucose or stored for later form: Essential Fats.
This energy is consumed by different parts of our body in different forms. While mostly the flow of energy being controlled or regulated by our brain cells. I could move a book in front of me and transfer some of my energy to the book and give it some kinetic energy and result in a displacement that I can observe and comprehend the law of conservation of energy, as the energy was neither created nor destroyed but was converted from one form (chemical energy: glucose in my body) to the other(kinetic energy: displacement of the book). Conservation holds true.
However, on the other side, have you ever thought about the energy that gets invested into thinking? Unlike other transformations, we here wouldn’t understand what is the next form of the energy utilized. For instance, the Times Square New York’s picture definitely needs some energy to be visualized (I believe so). If that’s not the case, then there’s a whole large piece of the puzzle missing haha. We would be worried about it by now. Instead, if that is the case, then what is the form of energy that our imagination consumes? Where does it go next? A few of my speculations are,
- Is it dissipated freely in the space around?
- Does the brain get heated up and that’s how it is conserved or is converted into another valid form?
- Does it get reused by our body (if this is the case, we’d be self sustained after the first energy ingestion into us, for eternity afterwards) haha
- Or something else that we have not thought of, yet?
Thoughts Flow 