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[TheGiantMidgit]

I'm functioning at a rate around 143%. I had to import brain to meet my qouta. ...yes, import it. Directly into my skull.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

So now you have 143% of brainage. And so you are now only using 100%. It's just you have more brain to use 100% on.

[TheGiantMidgit]

Ah, but I'm comparing it to the average brain, so you primates can relate and comprehend just how exceedingly intelligent I am in comparison to your own simian like minds.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Wow, you thought of everything, you really are smarter than the average bear.


By the way where did you import this brain from?

[TheGiantMidgit]

China, only the finest (and cheapest) for my head.

[Evad]

I was wondering if anyone had heard the direct quote of 3%.

I also think this is a myth after I saw a program showing how blind people use part of their visual cortex for imagry. They wouyld give a blind person an object and ask them to imagin what it looks like, and from their reading the persons visual cortex was very active, even though this area of the brain was "supposedly" redundant. Where we faulter I believe is habitual thinking and laziness.

[Ignite]

My brain is part-polar bear k:

[lethe]

It growls at night?

[Borodin]

Originally posted by Evad@Dec 22 2005, 02:44 PM
I know it's kind of thought of as a myth, but I was having an argument with someone about it. I thought I read somewhere that Einstein said he thought he only used about 3% of his brain; or as little as 3%. But everywhere I look all I can find is 10%.

I asked a friend of mine, a neurobiologist about this, once. She said it's a myth, pretty much as you'd expect. Much of brain activity has nothing to do with the conscious mind, but is occupied in a huge variety of body controlling and monitoring activities. We just like to think of the ego, "ourself," as the brain; and we're not. We're actually the whole mix.

[Evad]

hey can you ask your friend about the 3%. Everywhere I look its 10%, but I remember reading somewhere that Einstein figured that was too high and he thought he only used 3%. I know its a myth, my point here is the 3% figure specifically.