What if people could use 100% of their brains....

[LeeTJ]

Originally posted by: Arkitech
I think at most people use around 10% of their brain capacity. They say geniuses use slightly more but not by much. So if there was someone who by a freak accident learned to fully utilize their brain capacity what would they be able to do? read minds, make billions, come up with the perfect pickup line that never failed???

interesting

very interesting

it's not learning how to utilize, it's a function of time.

the argument is, we never forget anything we've sensed. everything is stored away, but our lives are too short to fill the max capacity of the brain. if we lived for 500 or 600 years, would we come closer to the max?? i'm sure we would.

but really that's not interesting because it's just about storage. the more interesting thing is to find ways of accessing the memories. recall is more important than storage.

 

[Eli]

I'm going to have to agree with others that disagree with the 10% thing. Maybe your only using 10% at any one time, or something.

We are learning every day what the different portions of the brain do. Every part does something, and if that part is missing or non functional, you aren't going to be able to do whatever it controlled.

Originally posted by: radioouman
Read my sig.

The human brains holds between 1 and 7 terabytes of data. How long do you think it will be before we can buy 1 terabyte hard drives?

Hmm.. That seems like a massive difference to me. I wonder which ones of us are only storing 1Tb..

Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
Actually, I doubt that much of the brain is unused. Much of the mind operates below the level of awareness. Ever try to remember something, could not, then it just pop up when you apparently forgot about it? The problem was being worked on, you just didnt realize it. Your brain is functioning, processing all the time. You just are so used to it, you don't even notice.

Interesting. I've never really thought about it like that, lol.

 

[Blain]

If people could use 100% of their brains...

Simon Barsinister would "RULE THE WORLD". :Q