if u switch brains with a smart dead person, will u gain their intelligence?
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well, very inellgent question, first of all once the brain is dead, it cannot be  transplanted. the possibilities are very low. but, recently one experiment on brain transplantations were succeded in europe, some 26 days back.it wasn't an succeded 100%, but it showed 45% improments. and how the technology is! by the next few years it will be 100% possible!.it will be!
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I understand the question....\n\nCommon sense is inversely proportional to intellegence.\n\nThe more brilliant and specialzed a person is... the more likely they will specialize and become CLUELESS in other area.  \n\nI once knew a BRILLIANT woman... who did not know that the "DIRECTIONAL SIGNAL INDICATOR" she read about in her drivers handbook... was the "BLINKER".\n\nGO figure.
662987
yes if she has as little brain as he does. no if she can think.
519112
so offering to lie to someone makes you smarter?
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I doubt it, given your poor grammar; if it is true, you should really consider thinking things through a bit more so that you can communicate clearly with others.  No one will respect your intelligence if you can't communicate clearly.
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Yes, of course.\n\nYour brain is like a lot of muscles - if untrained, it works less well.\n\nWith regular training and thinking, especially "thinking around the bend" or "thinking out of the box" you will boost your capacity.\n\nProbably, even with the best training you won't reach the brain capacity of Einstein, but you will notice great improvements.
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no, probably not. "intelligence" is not a trait that can be pin-pointed to the action of any gene or set of genes. \n\nthere is a set of genes (i can't remember precisely which at the moment...) that controls the size of the brain. it does this by signalling neuron progenitor cells to switch their mode of cell division at a certain time, thus controlling the amount of neurons produced. turning this switch just one cycle later would double the number of neurons produced! studies were conducted with rats, messing with this gene. they produced rats with significantly larger brains (more gyrification, actually), however they were severely mentally retarded! \n\nSo to answer your question, yes you can alter brain-structure by altering genes (i took a class about brain development last quarter and there are A LOT of different genes that control different aspects of how the brain is developed, but we don't understand all of the processes completely!), but it won't make the baby smarter, usually any changes have severely detrimental (if not lethal) consequences.
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yes u may if u got a brain to learn with of course.......... in fact u could learn anything
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This is the best question I've ever seen.  Thanks so much for asking it!  You will not get the full answer, but it will be very interesting if you keep asking smart people what they think.  I really want to know the answer to this question, and I never thought to ask it myself.\n\nObviously the brain (and possibly the body as well) requires some kind of regenerative process, just like it requires a certain amount of food and water and oxygen.  You can't go too long without either, or else your body will break down.  If you "lose sleep," you suffer - no one gets away with it.  In fact, one of the ways they use to torture prisoners of war nowadays is sleep deprivation.  Even the most hardened killers begin to crack under its effects, physically and psychologically.  \n\nDo trees sleep?  You have to wonder.\n\nI'll let you in on one secret I know that most people do not.  One of the answers to your question is that the unconscious mind has about 1 million times more processing power than the conscious mind.  It would make sense if our body's natural functions require the full force of regulatory calculations that only the unconscious mind can perform.  In other words, if we only used our conscious minds to run our body and brains, we would quickly degenerate and die.  We're nowhere near as smart when awake as we are while asleep.  Unfortunately, the only way to do work (to get food & water) is to be awake, alert, receiving new data, and guiding one's movements.  Then again, we can live for decades in a coma.\n\nThis is such a great question.
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One thing I do know is that even the most intellent being will never run out of things to learn.  \nThe more intelligent a person the more they can access information and find specific information.  A person of not such an intelligent dispostion can still learn through YA :D
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trade brains with your turd then,\ncuz it's clearly more intelligent than you
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if you had a brain would you use it?
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er, smart?\n\n\n\nbwhahahaha!
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I don’t know why other human beings accept that another person with a brain no bigger or better could tell you what happens when you die.
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you  are master of  smartes.
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No.  If they're dead then they don't need to eat things.  *Un*dead have a variety of dietary requirements, but are rarely so picky as to be stuck with just eating brains with no flavor differentiation between smart people and stupid people or happy people and sad people.  \n\nBut frankly, I find it more likely that a strain of Mad Cow disease will make people brain-munching grey-matter junkies than hungry dead folks start rampaging about.  Look up "cockroach wasp zombie" to see how tripped out nature can get before death...
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One of the most sure way of increasing the percentage of brainpower you use (not neccesarry regarding to what we define as intelligence) is to use the age old technique of the East : Meditation. Performing Yoga under supervision, can also be very rewarding in this aspect. However, it has to be done carefully, as too much of either can have devastating results. So, good luck.