Less Food, Less Precision

Deprive mice of enough food,
And you can trigger their brains
To switch to efficiencies,

With the dark effect vision
Loses precision. This breaks
An old assumption that brains

Run at the same requirements
Constantly or start to starve.
A few billion years of life,

Trillions of generations,
You’ve got some tricks encoded
For dragging things out longer.

The question isn’t purpose—
More life is life’s purpose—but
What’s the source of this purpose?

What’s the purpose of purpose?
Aren’t the lifeless moons finer
For spinning without purpose?

The view outside the window
Grows clearer or blurrier
As the thoughts grow hungrier.