Lavish wrote [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

I'm surprised you didn't know that the whole "10% of your brain" thing was a myth.
A very well known myth at that. :p

Wikipedia? You're argument is invalid. Not saying it's not a myth, but don't use wikipedia to support your claims.

I think that our brain is an alien and our body is the host. The brain pulls the strings that control us.

prisonedalien11 wrote

Lavish wrote [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

I'm surprised you didn't know that the whole "10% of your brain" thing was a myth.
A very well known myth at that. :p

Wikipedia? You're argument is invalid. Not saying it's not a myth, but don't use wikipedia to support your claims.

The only time you should worry about Wikipedia being used to back up an argument is when it has no references at the bottom. If you look closely, this one does.

-_- dem downvotes ->
You click the references which take you to the sites the information was taken from, in this case, Scientific American and Psychology Today. Two well known and trustworthy publications which have a reputation to uphold meaning they wouldn't post nonsense.
Lavish was fine using Wikipedia to back up his point, people just don't like clicking the references because it takes too much effort to actually read more than 3 lines of text at a time, so instead they say 'You shouldn't use Wikipedia to back up a point.'

It is true only 10% of the human brain is used, at any one time.

You do use all of your brain, but it is simply not necessary to use it all at once. What would be the point of using the part of your brain that is responsible for solving equations etc while you are reading or listening to music.

You got this from the movie Lucy didn't you?

That is incorrect. You do not use 10% of your brain. you use all of it, but you don't use all of it at once. Don't believe every myth you hear.

TTG_jrj109z wrote

The human brain is complex. Along with performing millions of mundane acts, it composes concertos, issues manifestos and comes up with elegant solutions to equations. It's the wellspring of all human feelings, behaviors, experiences as well as the repository of memory and self-awareness. So it's no surprise that the brain remains a mystery unto itself.
Adding to that mystery is the contention that humans "only" employ 10 percent of their brain. If only regular folk could tap that other 90 percent, they too could become savants who remember to the twenty-thousandth decimal place or perhaps even have telekinetic powers.
What do you guys think? Truth or Myth?

'humans "only" employ 10 percent of their brain' is a bogus myth which I am surprised is still being spread.
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* Apologies. I have only just realized I have simply reiterated a point mentioned in previous replies

Seeing as you got this all from the upcoming movie "Lucy" I'm just gonna have to say it'll remain a mystery, and most likely locked away forever, so why bother even hurting your thoughts on thinking about this. That would just be dumb

Labyrinth wrote You use all of your brain but only 10 percent at a time. For example, you can't remember the past and imagine the future at the same time because you use different parts of the brain for each.

That's actually wrong

Studies of brain damage: If 90% of the brain is normally unused, then damage to these areas should not impair performance. Instead, there is almost no area of the brain that can be damaged without loss of abilities. Even slight damage to small areas of the brain can have profound effects. - Wikipedia

Brain scans have shown that no matter what one is doing, brains are always active. Some areas are more active at any one time than others, but barring brain damage, there is no part of the brain that is absolutely not functioning. - Wikepedia

The brain is enormously costly to the rest of the body, in terms of oxygen and nutrient consumption. It can require up to 20% of the body's energymore than any other organdespite making up only 2% of the human body by weight.[14][15] If 90% of it were unnecessary, there would be a large survival advantage to humans with smaller, more efficient brains. If this were true, the process of natural selection would have eliminated the inefficient brains. It is also highly unlikely that a brain with so much redundant matter would have evolved in the first place.

colbias18 wrote

Labyrinth wrote You use all of your brain but only 10 percent at a time. For example, you can't remember the past and imagine the future at the same time because you use different parts of the brain for each.

That's actually wrong

Studies of brain damage: If 90% of the brain is normally unused, then damage to these areas should not impair performance. Instead, there is almost no area of the brain that can be damaged without loss of abilities. Even slight damage to small areas of the brain can have profound effects. - Wikipedia

Brain scans have shown that no matter what one is doing, brains are always active. Some areas are more active at any one time than others, but barring brain damage, there is no part of the brain that is absolutely not functioning. - Wikepedia

The brain is enormously costly to the rest of the body, in terms of oxygen and nutrient consumption. It can require up to 20% of the body's energymore than any other organdespite making up only 2% of the human body by weight.[14][15] If 90% of it were unnecessary, there would be a large survival advantage to humans with smaller, more efficient brains. If this were true, the process of natural selection would have eliminated the inefficient brains. It is also highly unlikely that a brain with so much redundant matter would have evolved in the first place.

10 percent at a time which constantly fluctuates between different parts of the brain.
I don't remember saying that there are parts of the brain which don't function at all, just that the entire brain doesn't function entirely at the same time with the same amount of energy being used by each part.
It's around 10% for the entire brain and that 10% fluctuates between different parts depending on where it is needed the most.