QUOTE (Drayno @ May 13 2008, 04:33 PM)

I do too, the brain is a wonderful thing. Saying we understand the brain completely would be kind of the wrong thing to say, as ours brains grow in our life time a lot. We constantly absorb knowledge. It is true that we use 100% of our brain, but we have yet to understand it's capabilities, because it evolves over generations. I will honestly admit I have no proof, but it is common sense.
There is the rub. It is neither common nor sensible really.
Our brain is a wonderful thing, it is the key, it got us to where we are and keeps us here. Yes, we do not understand the brain and its functions completely. There still are some mysteries and some things we are working on figuring out. Our brains do grow is a psychological sense through learning/the adsorbtion of knowledge. Now here comes the problem. We do use 100% of our brain and we do evolve over time but the following problem is very poor math: 100% brain use + "evolution" = some sort of psi ability(or the possibility of psi).
You stated you have a logical mind set. Ok then, follow me here. We use 100% of our brain and as far as anyone has ever been able to tell we have no psi abilities. There are interesting stories, there are unique personal experiences but there is no proof, there are no results and as such there is no psi. In order to develop some sort of psi ability things would have to change. We already use 100% of our brain so what happen in order to develop some ability? A structure in the brain would have to change, part of the brain would have to shrink to make room for this new structure, some existing structure would have to become dual purpose thus making its former role less efficient or powerful, our brain (and head) would have to get bigger to handle this new structure and not effect previous ability levels. Something would have to happen and it would not happen overnight. Thinking along these lines do we see a single bit of this happening? Do we see a hint of anything at all currently? I don't think so.....
Now I am sure you will say that since we use 100% of our brain but do not fully understand everything it does there is room for new discoveries. Ok fine. The only problem is that this does not mean there be monsters there. Just because we do not understand fully does not mean we can not hypothesize (educated guess). Nothing in our psychology or physiology really hints at any psi ability. As such and if we ever truly completely figure out how the brain works we probably are not going to find some untapped ability or whatever.
Your next point is kind of what happens when a believer has their 10% brain use comment shot to hell and they are left grasping for straws. Same sort of flawed thinking just some other thing to make it possible, in this case "evolution". We currently have no psi abilities and our brain does not have the room for "evolving" such things nor do we see any hint that we are "evolving" in that line. The reason I put evolve in quotes is that there is a very poor understanding of how evolution occurs. This is not just for you personally put a good number of people fail to understand it completely. I noticed you said "it evolves over generations" and this leads me to think you need to brush up on what evolution really is or does. Might I also suggest a somewhat recent thread where I posed the question of why psi powers would evolve. Perhaps this can point you in a solid direction of thought.......
Drayno, you said you had a logical mind set. Logic is an interesting thing. There are people that have it and don't need to say it, there are people that say it but do not really have it and there are those that just do not have it at all nor do they claim it. Reflect and decide which one of these you want to be and apply that here. Do the math. Logic = no psi abilities.
Also, can you outline what psi things you believe are possible or will be/could be possible? I know you said you don't believe in telekinetics so could you let us know what you think is possible? If you have covered this already I apologize for skipping over it......
Kevin A.