Are there any know cases of this? How does this happen?
In: Biology
Your brain and a computer have almost nothing in common. Thinking uses currents through a solution (cytoplasm) rather than through a wire so a) there not a lot of resistance in your brain so it won’t heat up measurably, and b) it’s already sitting in its own cooling fluid. The body’s cooling mechanism is much more effective than any computer’s cooling mechanism, mostly because we’d die if it wasn’t.
So the bottom line is, thinking doesn’t create significant amounts of heat and we already have an amazing cooling system in place. On top of that, a fever is your immune system raising your body’s temperature *on purpose* so a better comparison would be overheating/hyperthermia which is very dangerous
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