{"id":233583,"date":"2026-03-18T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-human-brain-runs-on-20-watts-of-power-about-the-same-as-your-computer-monitor"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:03:08","slug":"the-human-brain-runs-on-20-watts-of-power-about-the-same-as-your-computer-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-human-brain-runs-on-20-watts-of-power-about-the-same-as-your-computer-monitor","title":{"rendered":"The Human Brain Runs On 20 Watts Of Power, About The Same As Your Computer Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-human-brain-runs-on-20-watts-of-power-about-the-same-as-your-computer-monitor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your brain can outperform just about any computer out there. So, how come it needs barely any energy to do so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your brain can outperform just about any computer out there. So, how come it needs barely any energy to do so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}