since we only use 10% of our brain do you think that it is possible that one day we will be able to use 100% of our brain and what will be the difference will we get like telicanetic powers or something?

Um, why don't you look in other topics because I believe that this subject has been talk about before.

I think that when we're able to use 100% of our brains, we'll realize how much more we could have done when we only used 10%.

We do use 100% of our brain. It's just a myth that we only use 10%

All parts of the brain are always being used—even during sleep.

Too bad, this whole issue is a myth. Check out THIS ARTICLE, for example. Good ol' snopes.com There is no evidence that humans do not use 100% of the brain. I particularly like this quote: Have you ever heard a doctor say, ". . . But luckily when that bullet entered his skull, it only damaged the 90 percent of his brain he didn't use"

No, we couldn't use 100 percent of our brains, because this would override the automatic parts of the brain and stop vital bodily processes from occurring.

ummm ok any proof to what you claim

There is a part of the brain called the autonomic brain which makes our heart beat and our stomach digest and our liver filter and stuff. Without these functions we would die, so there has to be a part of the brain set aside to make them happen. Just imagine trying to live your life at the same time as telling your body to do these things. We'd all commit suicide.

I think a better way of putting it 100% of our brain is used. Not all for cognative use (because the brain has to do other things like Mr E mention as well as endocrinology functions). But it is all in use for something.

I thought it was Einstein who used 10% of his brain, and the average person is much less than that. But I don't see how any exam could say how much percentage wise of your brain is being utilized. It's not a computer with data and readouts.

Chemical analysis of what chemicals the brain produces. The 10% thing is completely not true. Einstein was a great physicist, not great at everything. Every part of the brain has been tested and shown to have function.

Again, people are confusing brain (the processing machine) with mind, (the processing operation.) It is probably true that 100% of the physical brain is used (both as a total machine and in separate parts for separate purposes) (Except of course in people with physical diabilities to the brain) However, far less than 100% of the processing capacity is used by most people . The reason for this ranges from intelligence, through training, to critical self awareness. It may also involve differences in hardwiring between people's brains, and different software packages installed in different people. Processing is influenced by such things as patterning and practice as well as the physical configuration of a brain. Some people learn best by observation, others by doing etc. However standard belief is that you have to visualise and mentally rehearse doing something hundreds of times to create the same mental pathways you can burn into the synapses with just one actual experience. Personally i think that many potentialities of the mind exist, which have only been partially unlocked, and then only in a small percentage of the population.

I would agree with that conclusion.

But that is only a greater ability a problem solving and memory capacity. Nothing more, it would not lead to psychic ability etc, it would just mean you can do more complecated maths and be able to memorise events to a greater extent (ie become more intelligent) However the range to which a mind can develop varies upon the individual anyway and people are greater at differing skills even when brought up in the same environment. I severely doubt there is much more we can expand our minds with (something only possible in child development anyway) and most intelligent people are in fact most likely at the upper limit of there brains capacity.

The fact is that 100% of our brains may be used 24/7 but they have not linked anything to do with conciousness with the brain, concluding that its possible that we are capable of a hell of a lot more than we give credits to ourselves for. for example, astral projection, for those of you who dont know what it is, in a short definition its basically your conciousness leaving your body as you sleep to travel an astral plane, or different world unaffected by the physical world.

What are we without our senses? if we had no senses would things still exist? if a tree fell in a forest and there was nothing around to hear it would it still make a sound? there is a TON of stuff about life that science cant prove because its based on the image that our senses create, along with everything else, it cant calculate or predict stuff like spirituality or psychic abilities and the fact that our senses are everything could mean that anything is possible

The fact is that 100% of our brains may be used 24/7 but they have not linked anything to do with conciousness with the brain, concluding that its possible that we are capable of a hell of a lot more than we give credits to ourselves for. for example, astral projection, for those of you who dont know what it is, in a short definition its basically your conciousness leaving your body as you sleep to travel an astral plane, or different world unaffected by the physical world.

What are we without our senses? if we had no senses would things still exist? if a tree fell in a forest and there was nothing around to hear it would it still make a sound? there is a TON of stuff about life that science cant prove because its based on the image that our senses create, along with everything else, it cant calculate or predict stuff like spirituality or psychic abilities and the fact that our senses are everything could mean that anything is possible

You guys make it sound too much that our brain is like a computer, computers are human made machines, saying that our brains operate like a computer is completely irrational i mean it has some basic qualities of a computer but its our conciousness that holds the key to unlocking the mind, not the brain, the brain is the physical boundry, it makes our physical body work.

Oh and by the way Einstein's brain was a mutantly large which explained his amazing intelligence, it was an actual disability but a positive one giving him more brainpower.

Conciousness is the key

I read a book called Strange brains and Geniuses and yeah, its a myth that we use only 10% of our brains. In fact scientists say that people who achieve amazing feats of mind such as E=mc2 Are people who actually decide to think. People who have the desire to accomplish will accomplish things. It's 99% perspiration and only 1% genius that makes geniuses.

There are bigger brains however and strangely shaped brains. Some people are born with amazing abilities that normaly take years to develop.

What I don;t get is whether we are able to...better utilize what we have in order to get more out of our brain? Sure, we may be working at 90% capacity or something, but is it likely that we will ever use more?

We may use 100% of our brain but not at 100% efficiency or output. I once had to do an aptitude test that was so hard my brain actualy wanted me to put down my pencil as if I had just run a long way and just ran out of energy. Even then I doubt I was using anywhere near my brains full potential.

That's what I thought too.

I don't think we do utilize all of our brain, if we did we would be extremely talented and able at everything, dunno about everyone else but I fall far short!