And wouldn't the fact of the questionable fact raise the percentage?

I don't get that. How do we 'unlock' the rest of our brain?

Don't say 'learning', or there would be a set amount of education.

It's just a theory or myth that we only use a certain percent of our brains. Usually it's 12%.

I don't believe it for a second. We know all sorts of different parts of the brain that are responsible for different activities and events. As far as i'm aware, there aren't any gray areas that are completely unused.

We use 100% of our brains. The 10% is a myth.

But what about Einsteain (or maybe it was Franklin...) saying:

"We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything"

Those genius' couldn't be wrong, right?

And we can only store as much information as a 40 gig computer. Or maybe somethin' other than a gig... 40 something.

I don't believe it for a second. We know all sorts of different parts of the brain that are responsible for different activities and events. As far as i'm aware, there aren't any gray areas that are completely unused.

Not COMPLETELY unused but there are some areas that aren't avalaible to our conscious mind and some areas that aren't even completely explored yet.
So to say we use 100% of our brain is just as incorrect as to say we use only 12%.

Well, 100%, as well as 10%/12%, is just an exageration... an approximation.

The 100% is said by neurologists...
I know what you mean by subconscious, but the entire brain is used.

Well, 100%, as well as 10%/12%, is just an exageration... an approximation.

Kind of. The numbers are right, but they were put in the wrong context.

What does that have to do with what % our brain uses ?

I'm not sure what you're reffering to,Yelekiah, but I think the 100% is just a theory. Last time I checked, there were parts of the brain that science was still unsure about. Function and so on.

That % is equivilent to the amount of information our brain can store, and therefore use

No, it's what we know about the universe around us, and the fact that if we studied something for years and years we will never ever know everything about it since information is infinite.
Not that our brains can only hold so much.

Throughout the day and night, we do, indeed, use every part of our brain. After being grossly corrected for stating this myth, I did a bit of research. At some point throughout a 24 hour period, every part of our brain fires at least once. We may not know every single thing that every single part does, but we do know it all gets used.

I remember reading a book in which Einstein said that if a human were to use a 100% percent of their brain, they would become a being of pure energy and would't need a body. That would be awesome!!!

Pharaoh... I dont know how to say this nicely, so I'll just say it. This stuff seems beyond your current level of understanding.



They may be unsure of the fuction, but they can still record the use of those portions of the brain.



That has nothing to do with the quote.



Im sure you did. So what does that have to do with anything?

Ugh. It's just the idea that the potential of the human mind has never really reached its full zenith. There is some of our brain that we don't necessarilly use all of, but it's more of a matter of capability than neglect. There isn't a chunk of greymatter that makes up a tenth of our brain that represents all that we use.

here's all you need to know about the ten percent myth

Say it with me: "THANKYOU GOOGLE!"

I know i had the article on this somewhere I'll post it up when i find it. There is no doubt that the brain is active in all areas and can be assumed to be used 100% of the time.

However the brain cells (I forgot the name of the excate neuron) responsible for cognitive thought and general consciousness is not used up to its potential as Raistlin Majere stated. Its estimated in our life time we will not even use a 1/3 for some maybe 2/3 of those cells. Most of these cells are locked so at an early age only a small amount that is grown/growing is readily available, in order to unlock them one cell have to die. With every cell killed about 3-6 cells are unlocked. This process naturally slows down with age so when a cell dies 1 or none is unlocked.

So the theory is the more cells unlocked the more cells are available and the increase in awareness and cognitive thought.

"THANKYOU GOOGLE!"

the 10% thing is definitly a myth...

What isn't a myth tho is we could be able to increase mental capacity with certain compounds... Nootropics are good for brain enhancement. Drugs that increase communication by creating this Super high link between both hemispheres of the brain... Or plants such as vinpocetine that increase blood flow and uptake of oxygen and glucose in the brain. Basically increasing brain metabolism and increasing the rate of Adenosine Triphosphate production or known as (ATP) which is a universal energy carrying molecule, aswell as NADH which is a high energy electron transport molecule, these are produced by the mitochondria of the cell, one of its organelles.

The brain is a flawed design

The brain doesn't actually store glucose even tho it runs on the stuff. Which is like trying to run your car without a tank... So i'm sure there are ways he can improve the brain capacity through things like Nootropics and other smart drugs that pass the brain barrier.

I can't believe that the 10% brain thing is still going around... amazing lol

if you think about it, what about all of the things we don't control? how about, your heart beat, your breathing, digesting, blood flow, remeber to see, remember to smell, remember to hear, if you had to remember all this, we wouldn't live very long and it would be a pain to do anything.

so about 90% of us in uncontrollable, which means its inverable? something like that, it means it does something without thinking.

so we CAN only use 10%, the rest we can't because it's automatic.

Pfft... Just give up.

No... the rest we're still using, except it doesnt take a concious effort on our part to do. Its still us.

Yeah.. you actually just went out and technically proved that all the brain IS used...

Besides, this should be in MY topic about this

If did any research, you'd find that the truth is very basically this:

We use roughly 10% of our brain for each task we perform.

This topic needs to be merged with the other one...

Yup, agreed.

Just need to find it and... merged.

Could the 10% and 100% be both right?
Could we only use 10% of our mind power while using 100% of the brain?
Look at Einstein, who theorized that if a human were to use a 100% percent of their brain, they would become a being of pure energy and would't need a body.
If we were to look at Pam Reynolds NDE, she was purposly put to death, so doctors could remove a tumor from her brain. The doctors lowered her body temp to 60 degrees, her heart stopped, her brain ceased to function(according to EEG), yet she clearly had knowledge of what occured in the operating room WHILE she was brain dead and clinically deceased.
She recalled instrements used, people in the room while she was clinically deceased, and even conversations that occurred during that time.
If this were the case, then the idea of the brain firing at 100% so we would not need bodies is false, and disputes Einsteins claim, for clearly in this case the BRAIN was NOT functioning.
Pam Reynolds EEG would have been off the wall if this were true, but it was flatline.
While we do know much about brain function, clearly we know little about the workings of the mind.
Perhaps this is what Einstein was eluding to in his theory.
While the brain may indeed function at 100%, the MIND is only functioning at 10%.
Dunno....

There are lots of ways to increase the mental capacity that doesn't involve drugs and actually work better, listening to complicatied classical music learn something new to simply spend 10 minutes a day before arising deep breathing into the brain nuerons you will actually feel your brain cells tingle. Beliveing you can increase your mental capacity will do more for you than anything . Namaste Sheri

What percentage does that make the nervous system, below the brain?? If it was 10%?

Brain must be functioning at its full capacity, no part must be without reason or a function in such a delicate and most important part of human body. Brain has lots of stuff to do with our body functions other then serving our minds.

If we go with the debate that mind actually uses 100% of brains capacity, hmm Brain using at it limit is not a exciting idea.
Consider a computer hard disk with no space, it won't even boot up probably.

I think the debate is "do we (our minds) use 100% of the brain", and we know we don't and hence Einstein statements looks ok, because if we use 100% body will be useless anyways.

Limits of brain to process, analyze and think are limits to everything we see around.

Does anyone here happen to be a neurologist? Because they say we use 100%.

Probably not but I can ask a neurologist, even tho I'm confident that 10% thing is total crap...

It definitely is crap, the 10% shouldn't be debated.

It's partly true.

Like I said, we use 10% of our brains for each task we perform.

I explained this in another thread, I'll say it the same way I here. But I'm not a professional at all, but it seems to make sense to me.

We use the whole (100%) of our brain mass, but we just dont use its full potential. Similar to how you use the whole of your bicep to lift your arm, but you don't rarely use it's full potential.

The nervous system factor....

There's another take on this. For example, there is a specific region of our brain which processes fear impulses resulting in an adrenaline response.
Obviously, that area of the brain is not active in the absence of fear. But that area is not totally inactive either.

I would be interested to know if a totally brain-dead person (exhibiting no electrical activity in the brain whatsoever) was ever brought back to life.

The 10% myth itself wasn't based on any truth at all, it was thought to originate from a misintirpretation of the einstein quote. His quote was actually saying that we (mankind as a whole) have yet to find a fraction of a percent of knowledge about the universe. Einstein was a physicist, not a nuerologist, so even if he did say that we only use a small percentage of our minds I wouldn't believe him.



I agree, theres absolutely no truth to it, and if it's true that we haven't unlocked the "potential" of our minds then it has no correlation with the 10% myth.

Pam Reynolds is one I have heard of.
Search the internet as she has shared her story.

Thanks, Turtle, I will look at the Pam Reynolds case.