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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Do we really use only 10% of our brains? I think I use more than that, and so do the Urban Legends Reference Pages: [url]http://www.snopes.com/spoons/fracture/10percnt.htm [/url]

See?

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Hey! Where did the editing function go?

Try again here (opens in a new window).

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Wouldn't that mean 90% of our brains are vestigal? *L*

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

I haven't seen this myth in a long time. Geller is still useing it. He ought to be shot.

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Posted by Mythril (Member # 286) on :

i always wondered what would happen if some could tapp in to all that brain power

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

I thought it was more like 20 something... eh, we're a stupid species no matter how you cut it.

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Well, I use more than 20% of my brain, and I can prove it. I read the article and know that using only 10-20% of the brain is BS. Some people apparently didn't read the article.

Tsk, tsk!

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Due to lack of sleep right now, only 2% of my brain is presently functional. And here I am starting a new work day.

*YAWN*

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

I use 100% of my brain.

And 50% of his brain, and 30% of her brain, and 75% of this brain I keep in a jar here...

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

I use (log (pi))(7e(ln(2^16)))% of my brain.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

That's all, Frank? I normally function with at least ((log 7)(e^(pi)))/(.001�)% at a time.

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

In general I prefer to use someone else's for the hard work.

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Er...Jeff, that's >19,000%.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Hmmm...made a mistake... though there was an e^ in there, thereby canceling out the ln

so when I calculated yours, it was much higher than 19,000 too

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

I don't use my brain, it's on vacation right now in some tropical paradise while I'm stuck here in this boring boring boring countryside state.... ugh

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

TLE: I'm sure Elim and Cureboy would share the brian that they are already sharing.

1stof2: The brain you have in a jar, correct me if I'm wrong, but that's abbey somebody isn't it?

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

I'm sure that was in either Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, or Switch Bitch. about a woman who kept her husband's brain alive in a jar. With an eye attached. And then smoked in his direction. Tsk, some women eh?

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

I thought I was sharing Core/Deep6's brain. But it could be Cureboy.

Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

Is there a "Where's Core/Deep6 (is that his name here?) thread posted? He's been gone what, 3 months now? I wonder where he is hiding.

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Posted by Mythril (Member # 286) on :

Well i finaly read the article it just does not sound right.

I believe that most humans use about 40 to 50% of their brain at one time, this is primarily for consious thought and sub-consious. And the other half is used to maintain the body.

Becuase if some one were to consiously use all 100% it could possibly cause a synaptic overload seriously damaging or killing the person. Or at least thats my theory. It sounds a alot more plausible than the 10% theory.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

The old Liam would burst out into song right about now, teaching us all about the mysterious ways of the human brain set to a charming yet slightly baudy melody.

The new Liam...I don't know, raps about computers or somesuch.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

*slobbers, zombie-style*

BRAINS!!!!!

*switches to Pythonesque E.F. Gumby*

MY BRAIN HURTS! SORRY! I! Believe! In! Peace! And! Bashing! Bricks! Together!

*switches to internalized brain neuron dialogue*
It's NOT WORKING!
AHH! Humor Failure!
Quick! Switch to backup systems!
Boooooooooooooop! Testing.. is this thing on?
Whadda we do now??
I don't Know!!! Make him sing?

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts....

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Sol, Pinky and the Brain beat me too it.

Although I did compose a song called "The brain: Great big soggy shit innit?" Didn't sell well.

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