Human Biocomputer Energetics
The human diet needed for metabolism is of order 2000 Calories per day. The lifetime of a single conscious moment q*-bit is about 1 second. This means 1018 kT energy dissipation per second from erasing the qubit fine structure of the single q*-bit, where T is body temperature 372 oK. 1018 kT = 1018 1.4 10-16 3.7 102 = 5.2 104 ergs/sec = 5.2 10-3 Joules/sec = 1.2 10-6 Calories/sec = (1/10) Calories/day. This is the power needed to generate consciousness in the human brain. It is only a tiny fraction of the metabolic power even if we up the consciousness baud rate by a few powers of ten.