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Watts per square metre of land is the least fashionable number in energy analysis and one of the most revealing. It explains what pre-fossil societies could not build — and it is contested in ways worth understanding.
Every neuroscience measurement is a trace left by an instrument in contact with tissue. The claim about the brain that follows is an inference, and the inference chain is where most of the uncertainty lives.
Measuring an agent is not measuring a model with extra steps. The object under test is a route through an environment, and a single success indicator reads only its last term.
A benchmark result is an assay: it depends on how the sample was taken, what impurity was already in the reference, and how many times the balance was read.