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From Livescience.com (full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/2007...WW5kpEF9Ks0NUE)


Myth: We use only 10 percent of our brains.


Fact: Physicians and comedians alike, including Jerry Seinfeld, love to cite this one. It's sometimes erroneously credited to Albert Einstein. But MRI scans, PET scans and other imaging studies show no dormant areas of the brain, and even viewing individual neurons or cells reveals no inactive areas, the new paper points out. Metabolic studies of how brain cells process chemicals show no nonfunctioning areas. The myth probably originated with self-improvement hucksters in the early 1900s who wanted to convince people that they had yet not reached their full potential, Carroll figures. It also doesn't jibe with the fact that our other organs run at full tilt.

I thought that it was we only use about 10% of our brain consciously, not that we only use 10% completely. 10% conscious and 90% other than conscious.

I have always taken it the Eriksonian way- all that I know that I dont know that I know- and looking for ways to befriend and connect with those vast resources.

To take the 10% idea too literaly is like saying I only use the pad of my thumb becase that is the only part that touches stuff- pens keyborads, chopsticks- but the whole thumb works together.

vitaman