# Life's Essential Consumption: Calories and Tokens ## The Dual Engine Theory Human existence can be distilled to two fundamental consumption patterns: **Calories** - Fuel for biological processes - Physical movement and survival - Brain function and cellular repair - Growth and reproduction **Tokens** - Fuel for cognitive processes - Information processing and decision-making - Communication and relationship building - Learning and creative output ## The Efficiency Paradox Modern life presents an interesting optimization challenge: - We've minimized calorie expenditure (sedentary lifestyles) - While maximizing token consumption (information overload) This creates an imbalance - our bodies evolved for high calorie/low token environments, but we now live in low calorie/high token conditions.