Dr. Martin Picard

at this point, that we'll find answers in molecular biology.

But what I do think is that an energetic understanding of life and an energetic understanding of ourselves, right, as a flow of energy, not as the molecules and the metabolism that support this flow, but as the flow itself.

I think that is kind of a point of consilience.

Energy flow is the linchpin between matter, you know, the stuff of biology, and experiences.

Again, we don't experience energy itself.

We experience a transformation of energy.

When energy flows through this metabolic circuitry that we have, metabolism is just an energetic circuitry, electrons flowing, not as free electrons in a copper wire, but as electrons from food to oxygen through enzymes, right?

So this thing is a metabolic...

carbon-based energetic circuit.

When energy flows through this, somehow, for reasons we don't fully understand, it feels like something.

Emotions, energy in motion, subjective experiences of feeling inspired and doing good or feeling terrible, wanting to die, these states

all live and all emerge from the transformation of energy.

Energy is kind of that consilience point where we have, you know, behaviors.

Everything we do in neuroimaging, right, the EEG or whatever, when we look at the brain, we're really looking at energy patterns.

If you just change how much energy flows in one region or another, you change the anatomy, you change the biochemistry, and then that gets encoded.

If energy flows a certain way or is patterned a certain way, it will change how genes are expressed, right?

It will change the epigenome because of metabolites and

whatever intermediates are there.

opening question, which is like, takes us through mitochondria and how that, you know, affects cellular and organ and, you know, behaviors.

I think what we just touched on here is like mitochondria flowing, transforming energy.