Key Indicator for Thinking

4 demiculus 1 4/10/2025, 4:42:17 PM

When it comes to tracking how healthy a person is, a lot of experts have started to converge on HRV (heart rate variability) as the key indicator.

What about for thinking? The speed, the quality. What could be a metric that would define a person is good at thinking? How would we measure it? How would we increase it?

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pizza · 20d ago

My guess: by measuring the minimality of the amount of energy spent restoring neuron depolarization capability by way of efficient clearance of metabolic waste (and wider network adaptivity) of thalamo-cortical circuits. The hypothesis being: 'for a neuron to struggle to repolarize = thinking feels and works bad'

How to improve it? Good hydration, good vascular system architecture, good sleep, good hemodynamics, low tension, low inflammation, good glymphatic drainage during sleep, good interspersed periods of rest between thinking, good perception of one's own fatigue so you don't burn yourself further with more activity - or even better, so you know how to make yourself feel at ease and comfortable to think, etc.

https://neurosciencenews.com/thalamus-conscious-perception-2...

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