Do we really use on;y 10% of our brains?

mysterious

I guess I use more maybe 12%.. i would to love do a test if there was one availeable.

I'm not talking about High IQ or anything llike that, so does any have a clue about this fact

joejoem

In my opinion we only use 10% of our hearts





where the hell is Pac Man??

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percnt.htm

SirLemonhead

I reckon I use about 11.3% tbh

Kojak

I use 0% of my brain, when I'm on boards at least.

connundrum

beep....beep....beep....beep....beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

mawk

there IS a test to see how much of your brain your using. a lot of hospitals us it in fact.


heres what it looks like
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/User-FastFission-brain.gif

want to find out more? try
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging

and we use about 90% of our brains even when we are asleep

byte

Probably about 4% at the moment.

slipss

This 10% of our brain thing is total crap to be frank, the brain is so complex, for anyone to claim to be able to say what percent of our brain we use is beyond bullsh1t, even the most advanced brain scanning and mapping technology we have is like a pig trying to estimate how many blades of grass there are in a 100 acre field, it's a general estimate made by people that wouldn't even try to make that estimate if they had even slight aspirations to be respected in thier field.

monkeyfudge

slipss wrote:

This 10% of our brain thing is total crap to be frank, the brain is so complex, for anyone to claim to be able to say what percent of our brain we use is beyond bullsh1t, even the most advanced brain scanning and mapping technology we have is like a pig trying to estimate how many blades of grass there are in a 100 acre field, it's a general estimate made by people that wouldn't even try to make that estimate if they had even slight aspirations to be respected in thier field.

Well our imaging technology does show that there is a huge amount of activity all over the brain.

I've had an MRI scan done of my brain, so I know mine is firing on all pistons anyway.... got a bit of a wonky cerebellum though.

Kernel

joejoem wrote:

In my opinion we only use 10% of our hearts

Ahhh the wedding crashers... fair play, you got there before me!