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Brain Use/40 hertz

kkollins at pop3.concentric.net kkollins at pop3.concentric.net
Wed Jan 6 23:36:13 EST 1999


But it's =Important= to keep the "%-usage" thought separate from the
"capacity" thought because, in the difference between the two, exists
information that bears upon the quality (after Pirsig) of folks
decisions.

Not keeping things separate, leaves folks blind.

Why do such?

Why do such in a Science place? ken collins

F. Frank LeFever wrote:
> 
> Oh, well, might as well say it: all the cells are busy all the time,
> but the brain as a whole is used for nothing very important by most
> people at least 90% of the time...
> 
> (I could cite some good examples right from this newagroup...)
> 
> F. LeFever
> 
> In <36936531.C5404452 at cs.usyd.edu.au> Mark James <mrj at cs.usyd.edu.au>
> writes:
> >
> >DK wrote:
> >
> >> As I told the other fellow who pointed this out (by the way, I know
> someone
> >> who undoubtedly could dance a jig and type at the same time--but not
> very
> >> well), good point. I failed to think out what I myself was saying.
> As I
> >> added there, though, it just seems to me to reinforce the idea that
> no part
> >> of the brain is actually "dormant" as these 10% (etc.) theories have
> it.
> >
> >Although the 10% figure was probably chosen because of its
> >roundedness rather than because of any scientific evidence,
> >I think it is plausible that most of us use only a fraction
> >of our brain's capacity.
> >
> >Even if no area of the brain is "dormant", and all neurons get
> >regular workouts, there can still be vast unused synaptic
> >capacity. Vast numbers of possible memories, represented by
> >combinatorial activation of sets of neurons, just never become
> >activated.
> >
> >I think we could all stuff in many more memories. It's just
> >not essential for most people's lives.  Watching a concert
> >pianist always leaves me in awe of the learning capacity of
> >the human brain -- Mark
> >
> >--
> >Mark James                                  |EMAIL :
> mrj at cs.usyd.edu.au|
> >================- WEB: http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~mrj
> -=================



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