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Man Wearing Brainwave Scanning Headset Sits in a Chair with Closed Eyes

Your brain produces more entropy while you are awake

8 February 2023

By analysing brain scans of asleep and awake people, researchers have found that the amount of entropy our brains produce varies with consciousness

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