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(03-11-2017, 11:51 AM)Bear Wrote: I would like to think that any human using more than 10% of their brain would realize that, brain tissue being there is evolutionary advantage to be had in using every bit of tissue you've got, or otherwise having less.  This was my first thought when I was ~5 years old and someone told me we only use 10% of our brain.  "Well, why then do we have so much?"  I am utterly sure that any number of young bright people thought the same thing.

It was later that I learned how much energy the maintenance and operation of a brain requires relative to other tissues.  I may have been eight or nine at the time, and at that point I was dead _certain_ that the 10% thing was wrong.  It was too expensive to waste so much resources on the 'useless' 90%. When finally it was acknowledged publically to be wrong, I was 30 years old or thereabouts, and simply rolled my eyes.

This was a myth created by woo-meister Uri Geller. No neuroscientist ever believed something so moronic. As to its persistence, well, look at astrology; it was discredited a few centuries ago and it's still kicking along happily. Once a myth gets going it's very hard to stamp out.
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Transcendence- Spoiler Corner - by Ares Johnson - 04-27-2014, 07:33 AM
RE: Transcendence- Spoiler Corner - by Dalex - 04-27-2014, 07:04 PM
RE: Transcendence- Spoiler Corner - by Rynn - 04-29-2014, 12:45 AM
RE: Transcendence- Spoiler Corner - by Rynn - 05-01-2014, 11:21 PM
RE: Transcendence- Spoiler Corner - by Drashner1 - 03-10-2017, 12:59 PM
RE: Transcendence- Spoiler Corner - by Avengium - 03-09-2017, 10:46 PM
RE: Transcendence- Spoiler Corner - by Avengium - 03-10-2017, 09:40 PM
RE: Transcendence- Spoiler Corner - by selden - 03-10-2017, 10:07 PM
RE: Transcendence- Spoiler Corner - by Avengium - 03-10-2017, 10:24 PM
RE: Transcendence- Spoiler Corner - by Bear - 03-11-2017, 11:51 AM
RE: Transcendence- Spoiler Corner - by JohnnyYesterday - 03-13-2017, 12:36 PM

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