Karl Self wrote:
>> There is a popular conception, AFAIK spawned by a Church of Scientology
> ad quoting Albert Einstein, that humans only use a fraction of their brain
> (10% or one third, I do not remember).
> I remember reading an article ages ago which explained what originally
> meant by his statement; if you have this information, I would be grateful
> if you could post it to this newsgroup.
> I am asking because I am currently taking a course where this idea is
> being heavily debated; allow me to emphasize that I neither subscribe to
> this idea nor advocate the Church of Scientology.
[Hammond]
The "Secular Trend" in human growth is one of the most massivly
proven facts of modern biology. This fact alone PROVES that
the human brain (like the rest of us) is not full grown, and
therefore we "only use part of our brains". The argument is
PROVEN SCIENTIFIC FACT.
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