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Brian Capacity

Kalman Rubinson kr4 at is2.nyu.edu
Sun May 23 20:47:35 EST 1999


Richard Hall (rhall at uvi.edu) wrote:
> The idea that we use only a small portion of our brain capacity is silly
> but recurs all the time.  It is a fallacy and if you think about it you
> will come to the conclusion that it is illogical.
> 
> Consider: If you use only 1% of your brain then you could obviously remove
> 20, 40, 60, 90% and have no ill effect.  What half of your brain do you
> wish to have removed?  See what I mean?

While I agree with you that it is extremely unlikely that we use only 1%
of our brains and that it is unfortunate that this probable fallacy is so 
commonly accepted but your argument proves nothing. What if the subject 1%
were distributed throughout the entire mass? 

Kal



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