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Brain Use/40 hertz

F. Frank LeFever flefever at ix.netcom.com
Wed Jan 6 22:35:28 EST 1999


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 :
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