Are we relly using the human brain to only 4%

I think it's an optimistic estimate.

 

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That is actually a good question. I guess it depends on who is saying it...

 

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How would he know?

 

closed minds=low brain usage

It saddens me to think there are people out there who actually think that THIS is all there is to being human. why would we NOT evolve further unless killing each other, disease and starvation are all we have to look forward to. so many young people today see their path (born, educated, get a job, buy stuff, marry someone, raise a family, die) as routine and boring. the excitement of life is missing in that equation, the expansion of knowledge and the growth of wisdom. when we accept limitations we get limitations and when we accept freedom, we get freedom. the more freedom we choose the more brain we will use and the greater the rate of our evolution. do not limit yourself to only 5 senses- they serve the purpose of limited awareness and sophmoric minds- but allow yourself to find the others we were given: those of UNlimited awareness. love and Light to you all.

 

Neurons which are not used atrophy and die, rather quickly unfortunately. This mainly happens during gestation when significant numbers of unused neurons die off to make room for the ones in use.

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0004-282X2004000600005&script=sci_arttext

 

I am curious as to what you mean by 'evolve further'. It implies a direction to our evolution. It implies we represent some sort of (current) pinnacle. Perhaps I misunderstand you, which is why I am seeking clarification.

 

Why would anyone, who believed in evolution, believe for a moment that humans were utilising only 4% of the capacity of any bodily organ? (Of course, there may be organs that we use for less than 4% of the time!)

 

Well, we use all of the brain, but not at all times (if you don't have some kind of seizure).

Maybe we only are aware of a certain % of the processes and we could be made aware of more. But to that I have no facts or numbers, for certain a lot of the processes are unconscious.

 

There is a woman called Sharon Parker who was born with hydrocephalus.

Sharon Parker was born and bred in Barnsley, Yorkshire. She's married with three children and is a qualified staff nurse. But, Sharon has almost no observable brain. Since she was a child, doctors have told her that she has no more than 10-15% of a normal brain.


from http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/mysterious-brain.html

So, we can definitely function without 85% to 90% of our brains.
Sharon is proof of that.

There are other cases discussed in this blog
http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2008/09/i-feel-a-chill.html

 

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M*W: Some of those folks post on sciforums.

 

And those with less than 1% make the move to Spuriousforum(s)

MW
I see asterisks on your post denoting a banned name.
Were you thinking along the same lines?
If so that is uncanny.
My first post of this remark came up with the same asterisks
and I had no idea that you were referring to that site.

 

People used to beg him to reopen closed ventures and let them stuff their cash into them. When the brain is consumed with greed there is little left for reason. I wonder how long it will be before the first film comes out.

 

Probably because they are.

 

Let's cut the scientific crap and look at this in a completely hypothetical way.

Say we do only use a small percentage of our brain, I've heard that people on hallucinogenics such as LSD use more of their brain than people who aren't on drugs. Perhaps this isn't true: I'm not really a scientist but let's just imagine, for the sake of the argument, that it is true.

They're seeing things that "aren't there" but how do we know that the things that they're seeing aren't actually there? Maybe they are there, we just can't see them because the amount of brain power we're using isn't strong enough to let us see those things.

Any thoughts?

 

We use all our brain. Get used to that as a fact. It is not all wholly active at the same time for two reasons a) we don't need it all active at the same time b) we couldn't cool it down fast enough.
We know about its activity because we can monitor it. There isn't any question about that. So your hypothetical question becomes meaningless.

Sorry.

 

Hmm, I'd like to see more research being done though.
Surely we can't know for certain?

 

Ooh snap I'm gonna become a billionaire too!

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We should gather funds and research together imo.

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