Some people are geniuses so I came up with an idea about this.Most people only use 10% of their brain while a genius must use more than a regular person.Everyone could be as smart if they used more of their.So who knows what can be capable of?What thinl about this.What think our capabablities are?

Humans actually use 100%. We only use 10% at any given time.

Think of your brain as a computer CPU. Simply because not all is used 100% of the time, it doesn't mean that the remainding is never used, nor that it is capable of doing things beyond the physical properties it possesses.

Just note that some geniuses would/are unable to set a video recorder or cook a simple meal

I believe we have controll over something vastly more powerful then the electrical impulses inside our nerves... Something to do with energy fields... and the focusing of these fields together onto certain points... what is our conciousness.

Ever heard of astral projection? Telepathy? psychic healing?

Some people can bend metal with their minds, some people can see deep inside soviet submarines under the water... or so they claim... if this is true, there must be a mechanism... something that pervades space and possibly time...

If we can focus our conciousness onto our own minds, we can possibly affect them in ways we never thought possible... correcting our own disabilities and condensing knowledge like a speed reader on speed! It has been scientifically proven that tibetan monks can regulate their metabolism through meditation... think about that and then reconsider your true potential, we may all be geniuses, it is just that the ones we call genius have allowed themselves to be so.

This is very true.


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I like the question on the title header thing; "can we do more then we know?" that is a really good question!! without questions like this, we don't grow... exploring what we don't know makes us grow! and so, we can do what we don't know, we do it all the time!

Very true, with each generation we are evolving, and being bombarded with more information. Are knowledge is expanding even if we still only use 10% of our brain? We naturally question things that we know are only just out of our sphere of knowledge.

So then the question becomes; How can we do more than we know?

OR

How do our actions exceed our knowledge?

The act of questioning is definitly a bridge to knowledge so this act must be within our knowledge, we must know that if we want to know we have to ask, and if we never ask we will never know... and then what I realize is that we only ever ask ourselves, we put forth effort in asking as question and this effort can condense into knowledge, so really, we only ever know what we want to know.

Please elaborate a bit more

sorry, a late edit.

Sorry, but I am not be pretentious here, but is'nt that obvious?

well not really... because it is not only the need for knowledge which causes us to put forth effort and create understanding within ourselves, but it is the desire as well. If we have a desire to understand something we must also have the mental capacity, obvioiusly, but it is a life-long endeavour, a genius is somoneone who has that mental capacity to understand a certain thing... and really, they don't have to be able to write it down to understand it, they don't have to know that they know, they just have to have a feeling that what they know is right... and then they look down inside their sub-consciouss where our deepest knowledge is stored, where our true selves exist, and they take that knowledge and force it to the front of their minds, and if that capacity for understanding exists, they will understand and then be called a genius... but everyone is a genius, because everyone has the capacity to extract knowledge from the universe, it is the capacity for understanding that knowledge that is the difference, and really, that is the crucial piece of the puzzel, because if we know that we already know it makes it so much easier to understand... but like I said, we need to develop that capacity first, and this is where education fails, our education system leaves it up to the individual to develop that capacity for themselves... and really, it is the reason why not everyone is a genius, but only capable of being one.

Do you really think that education can bring out the genius in us all? I would honestly say that it is in our genes. We are all at different levels of mental capacity, whether it is with numbers, figures or motor senses also. Our capacity, wrong word really, is about in built ability.

I think it can certainly help. I heard that when you learn something it produces dendrites. If this info is incorrect, please correct me. Einstein didn't have a larger brain than the average human being. He just had more dendrites.

I just thought that dendrites pass motor information on, they dont receive information or store it?

I could be wrong?

I'll try and check it out, I don't want to give out any inaccurate info. But I thought it was interesting that Einstein had so many (dendrites). It may have been a reflection on so many things he had learned.

Perhaps you have to have more dendrites inorder to assimilate more information.

The more the better, which gives credence to my argument that education alone cannot make a genius?

Einstein also used to forget where his house was and who he was. Real good in physics, but lacking in other areas.

I think that had more to do with opium than anything else

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Please Yelekiah, in laymans terms?

Does this relate to my last post?

Yes, you do in my opinion. The question is how do you get more dendrites. I thought you got them every time you challenged your brain or learned something. I'm not entirely sure, but I'll check it out.

Einstein took opium?

So, what is a person in deep meditation doing? Using his brain in a different way? People who have strong minds can do things most normal people can't do.

So a scientists can look at how many synapses and tell you if you're capable of being a genius or not? =/.....

actually it was proven that during mediatation people are using an area of the brain that is related to perception of their environments, and people who have been mediating their whole lives have an above average development in this area... it is just like a muscle, the more you use it, the more it grows... I believe through simple thought we can grow new dendrites.

Having a problem with the synapses doesn't mean anyone is stupid. There are a lot of geniuses with OCD, etc.