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Brian Capacity

F. Frank LeFever flefever at ix.netcom.com
Sat May 22 20:39:22 EST 1999


Occasionally (well, actually fairly often) someone posts something here
which makes it easy to believe that in at least some cases this is
true.

Someone with even half a brain might wonder who these "neuroscientests"
(sic) are, how they made this estimate, and where they published it,
and save the deep philosophical question until these basic questions of
fact were addressed.

F. LeFever



In <7i4285$sge$1 at news5.svr.pol.co.uk> "Simon Marsh"
<simonmarsh at tardis99.freeserve.co.uk> writes: 
>
>Some neuroscientests estimate that during an average lifespan, a
person uses
>only 1/100 of 1% (.0001) of his potentional brain capacity. - Why do
we
>have a brain with so much capacity that we hardly test a fraction of
it in a
>normal life time?
>
>
>




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