Max is wrong!
It's a common myth that we just use 10% of our brains, we pretty much use 100% of it. MRI and PET scans prove this. Max is a very naughty boy!
shareIt's a common myth that we just use 10% of our brains, we pretty much use 100% of it. MRI and PET scans prove this. Max is a very naughty boy!
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Actually, Mythbusters tested that very idiom, proving it wrong. While I can't remember the actual percentages their various scans came up with, it was more than 10%... The Trimaxians from Phaelon should have known that... So booya!
Me Grimlock kick butt!
So says Wikipedia, the most reliable and well-founded source of information on the Internets. Not.
Thankfully it seems like Max is pretty confused about how human brains work anyway. That's why the data storage they did on Dave's brain seems to backfire. Then again, if they are THAT confused about the human brain, you've got to wonder how they didn't leave Dave with massive brain damage. :s
shareMy simple theory I believe which is open to scrutiny is that we use 10%+ of our brains actively for everyday consciousness, working, living & active thinking.
The other ~90% is sub-conscious & includes long term memory, songs & nostalgic feelings from distant past, facts & figures that somehow have stuck in there, old & favourite dreams, past traumatic hurts & nightmares, input from the active 10% which shapes our subconscious nature. This separates us from other animals.
Unless you're a neuroscientist,I don't believe you
shareAre you thinking of 'Limitless'?
The movie about a drug that 'unlocks' the other 90% of your brain power?
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Oh no, not this again.
When will people learn? I already answered this in "Limitless" boards, but I guess I could try to explain it once more.
Sigh.
As we know, the brain is NOT just the physical brain that most of us have. It extends to the etheric-astral plane, and probably even higher than that. The astral brain is the real brain, the etheric brain is like a messenger between the astral and the physical brain.
In any case, we don't really store things in any physical brain - someone can have their brains 90% blown off (vietnam vets, for example), and yet they retain 100% of their memories. This couldn't be, if the brain worked the way we are being brainwashed (heh) to believe.
Now, when someone says they utilize only 10% of their brain, they don't of course mean any 10% physical portion of the brain, that would leave 90% of the PHYSICAL brain completely unused. Of course that kind of a claim WOULD be ridiculous, but I don't think anyone has seriously ever claimed that.
When they say 10%, they mean of course first of all the "brain as a whole", and not "brain divided by physical measures". That means that you have 90% of unused brain, EVEN THOUGH the physical side of the brain appears fully used and utilized. Every physical bit can be used, even though only 10% of the full brain (including the etheric and astral parts and beyond) is used - that other 90% is "asleep", for the lack of better term.
If this provides to be too difficult for you to understand, you can think of it this way;
When you flex your muscles, do you use your whole muscle, or just part of it? Of course you always use the "whole" muscle, but you don't really use it 100% of it's efficiency, just to pick up a match from the table, or to use a computer mouse or pen, do you?
(Though people do use way more force than necessary, for example, when brushing the teeth, but that'd be beside the point)
When you lift heavy weight - as heavy as you possibly can, you have to use 100% of the muscle, and probably sneer and huff and puff while doing it. THAT is using 100% of your muscle (but probably not quite 100% anyway in reality).
When you pick up a match from a table, and when you pick up an anvil, the same muscles function, the 'whole muscle' functions, but "how much you use it" differs. In the first example, you only use 10% of the muscle's power/capacity, and in the second example, you use more then 90% of the muscle's power/capacity.
With both cases, equipment would show that your whole muscle flexes, not just 10% of it, but you can easily understand the difference - in the other example you really do not use more than 10% of the muscle, even though physically measured, it looks like you use 90-100% of the muscle.
Furthermore, you can make your muscles bigger by doing workouts and excercizes and whatnot.
So if you have twins, one of which does a lot of those workouts, and one that never moves much, and the other starts having very hard and efficient, powerful muscles as the result, while the other has the relatively weak muscles, you can realize that the more muscular twin uses MORE OF HIS MUSCLE POTENTIAL, while the other one neglected his.
So in a way, you can say that the less muscular twin uses 10% of his muscle POTENTIAL, while the other one utilizes a full 100% of the muscle potential!
(In real life, the numbers are probably never this exact, and what's 'full muscle potential' is of course a bit hard to define, but this is just an example)
So from this line of reasoning and the facts I have presented here, you may realize why it'd be better to retract your overly simplified statement about no one ever using only 10% of their brains.
Btw, did you know that there are people who have no physical brains, but who function just as normally as any of us (if you can call ANY of Earth people's functioning 'normal', in the larger, Universal sense). Ever heard of "waterheads"? They pretty much prove that the physical brain doesn't need to be a certain substance or a certain shape - as long as the etheric and astral brains can function in the material sufficiently.
There's more to know about brains than your brains obviously contain.
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MAX IS A *beep*
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