Why do we only use roughly 10% of our brains?

[Vasska]

Originally Posted by VideCorSpoon

Also, about the spiders crawling into your mouth at night, thats why I duct tape my mouth shut when I sleep. They all laughed at me, but I showed them a thing or two.

Must be fun being in the asylum

Anyhow, i think we cannot measure knowledge only by the amount of brain used. Some people might not be as smart as you, but they might be able to handle other things better, its another form of intelligence.

[VideCorSpoon]

Asylums are ok... although... theres a shortage of chairs. LOL!

Also, there was an interesting joke a heard… and I am racking my brains trying to figure out where I heard it, but here it is.

“A doctor takes his first rounds at an asylum. He goes up to the first patient he sees and asks, “Who do you think you are?” The patient replied, “I, sir, am Napoleon!” “And how do you know you are Napoleon,” asked the doctor. The patient replied, “Because God told me so.” Then, from across the room, another patient yelled, “I... DID... NOT!!!”

But you cannot completely discount the physical factor (you don’t discount it, but this is just in general). There are some diseases which effect memory and motor function.

The brain is a hard drive, but not the software. But occasionally, hard drives crash and the software differs. Curse you MS Vista!!!

[Vasska]

Originally Posted by VideCorSpoon

Asylums are ok... although... theres a shortage of chairs. LOL!

Also, there was an interesting joke a heard… and I am racking my brains trying to figure out where I heard it, but here it is.

“A doctor takes his first rounds at an asylum. He goes up to the first patient he sees and asks, “Who do you think you are?” The patient replied, “I, sir, am Napoleon!” “And how do you know you are Napoleon,” asked the doctor. The patient replied, “Because God told me so.” Then, from across the room, another patient yelled, “I... DID... NOT!!!”

But you cannot completely discount the physical factor (you don’t discount it, but this is just in general). There are some diseases which effect memory and motor function.

The brain is a hard drive, but not the software. But occasionally, hard drives crash and the software differs. Curse you MS Vista!!!

Is it wrong of me to diagnose you with the Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? Seen your use of language and heavily editing in your post, that's right! I saw your original posting first!

Anyhow, we cannot discount the physical factor (half working brains for sale! buy 2 for the price of 1!) but we can differ between what people can or cannot do. The troublemakers are only the people with deficiencies (like autism and the likes) and people who got other problems (parkinson, senility etc etc).

There still is a huge amount of people (although outnumbered by the less fortunate) who are smart, and keep the world turning. But so does also the garbage man. It's a though cookie, and i don't like to admit it myself much, but everyone is smart in one way or another. Likeable is something else.

About the hard drive thing. I think mine is rattling at the moment ^^.

[astrotheological]

I know that I read the discover magazine but I've never read an article about how much of the brain that we use. Although I do not doubt that there would be an article in there but no offence or anything socrato but I think you misinterpreted the information.

[MITech]

Originally Posted by socrato

Believe it or not we as humans only use roughly around 10% of our brains. Could it be possible that as we evolve that we learn how to use more of our brains and become smarter or our IQ gets higher?
Just throwing this out there to see what everyone else thinks about this.

Here is something that everyone will benefit when they go to this website. It will talk about how using 10% of our brains is just a myth. Also Einstein said something about this himself but it was just a misinterpretation.

Neuroscience For Kids - 10% of the Brain Myth

[Hermes]

Originally Posted by socrato

Believe it or not ...

I don't believe it! As per the earlier post, it is just a common myth. According to wikipedia it probably first arose when early EEGs were done and it was found that approx 10% of neurons or cortical matter was active at any one time.

[bundo]

where did you get this information from?

[rambo]

With people these days, seems like they are.

[Vasska]

Originally Posted by bundo

where did you get this information from?

Originally Posted by rambo

With people these days, seems like they are.

Both of you; the topic died 15-10-2008. Meaning it's been well over 2 months dead, nearing a third. As explained in several postings it is a common myth caused by misinterpretation and pseudoscience.

Please don't start to dig up old topics that have no relevance anymore. Think before you type and keep the forum clean.