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Brian Capacity

Richard Hall rhall at uvi.edu
Mon May 24 06:53:17 EST 1999


When someone asks a simple question the polite thing to do is give an
honest, but simple answer.
Your qualifier shows the importance of structural organization in brain
function; hence, the entire mass has function...we use clearly use all of
our brain capacity in one way or another.  Mind also helps keep my ears
apart.

rlh

At 1:47 AM +0000 5/24/99, Kalman Rubinson wrote:
>>but your argument proves nothing. What if the subject 1%
>>were distributed throughout the entire mass?
>
>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

Richard Hall, Associate Professor of
Comparative Animal Physiology
Division of Sciences and Mathematics
University of the Virgin Islands
St. Thomas, USVI  00802

340-693-1386
rhall at uvi.edu



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