how much human brain actualy works?
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humans only use about 10% of their brains!!! amazing huh?
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We do use our whole brain.  The statement "we only use 10% of our brain" is untrue.\nCheck out this site for more info:\nhttp://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percnt.htm
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Yes.  The human mind is just an incredibly complex computer which can manufacture it's own connections.  All we need to do is get the software and hardware sides of our current technology up to the level of our brains and beyond...  Easier said than done, I know.
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We use all of our brains.  It is a myth that we do not.
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are you serious?! go to www.pubmed.org, type in 'brain'... I'm pretty sure you'll get in excess of 100,000 articles...
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No, this is a myth. A large part of our brain is used as proved by MRI's.
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One of the differences is in how much pre-frontal lobe cortex we have. The pre-frontal lobes have to do with "connecting the dots"...logical analysis, association...it allows us to visualize the future, make rationale judgments and plan. For this reason hey call it the "executive" part of the brain. In humans, 33% of the cortex, the thinking part of the brain, is frontal. In chimpanzees, it's only about 10%. That's a huge difference, signifying that humans have a whole lot more of the kind of brain function that produces higher level intelligence.
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Most articles say all of your brain. I believe that it also depends on the person. If you sit all day watching tv, you aren't going to use your brain as much as someone who goes for walks, reads a book, or participates in hobbies or other daily activities.
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The human brain controls heartbeat, respiration, digestion and other autonomic functions. It is the seat of thought, reasoning, and abstraction. The brain is what makes the cognitive mind possible such as perception, interpretation, imagination, and memories.\n\nWhile all that is good and fine if this is a homework question for elementary school or middle school just put down that it controls thoughts and emotions or something less complicated.
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No, it is not true. All of your brain gets used, at different times, for different functions. \n\nHow can it be measured? PET scans and fMRI.
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Current estimates of brain capacity range from 1 to 1000 terabytes! *terabyte is a 1000 gigabytes\n  \n"Robert Birge (Syracuse University) who studies the storage of data in\nproteins, estimated in 1996 that the memory capacity of the brain was\nbetween one and ten terabytes, with a most likely value of 3\nterabytes. Such estimates are generally based on counting neurons and\nassuming each neuron holds 1 bit. Bear in mind that the brain has\nbetter algorithms for compressing certain types of information than\ncomputers do."
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That's not true.  That's actually a big misconception.  Humans use 100% of their brain.  Even something as simple as scratching your head uses a large percentage of your brain. "When you make a movement, say with your left arm, you unconsciously plan that movement and you are unaware of this planning stage. To make a single voluntary movement, the frontal cortex, basal ganglia, thalamus, and premotor cortex are involved. And this is just for one movement. If you factor in everything else that we do at one time, like searching for certain items, listening to and comprehending speech, thinking and planning, memory consolidation, etc., then really, we are doing quite a lot with our brains."\n\nhttp://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html\nhttp://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percnt.htm\nhttp://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2006/03/only_have_10_of.html\nhttp://www.mercola.com/2004/oct/30/brain_use.htm\nhttp://www.brain-fx.com/2005/11/do_we_really_on.html\nhttp://www.alternativescience.com/no_brainer.htm\nhttp://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1090374.htm
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Yes and no. When we are first born, the human brain is the biggest part of the body. We literally have personalities the second we get out of the womb. Technically, we only use about 5 percent of our total brain capacity, so we know where we are, but what is keeping us here is what is known as stimulus overload, where we have soaked so much up that we cant get any more. (That is why cramming for a test/ exam is bad for you) The other thing is that the blood cells can only transport so much O2 (oxygen), so if we could increase O2 absorption efficency, then we could open up more possibilities. Assuming of course we can overcome stimulus overload. And yes, for the first few years we are growing connections to neurons exponentially. But when we get to about 20, they stop growing and start going the other way. So if we can increase O2 absorption, maintain connections, and overcome stimulus overload, then we can start unlocking our mind. Further more, it has been postulated that the human mind can store about 200 terabytes of info! (1 terabyte equals one thousand gigabytes)
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This is a myth that humans only use '10%' of their brain.\n\nAt any given moment in time, subportions of the brain are activated.  But, over time, all parts of the human brain are activated.  Which parts are activated at any given moment have to do with the functions of those parts of the brain and what associations have been established there.  The brain just isn't wired to have all neurons firing at once.\n\nThe evidence of what parts of the brain fire and when is being accumulated by having people perform specific tasks while having their heads scanned by CAT and PET scanners.  These are creating maps of the activity.
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a brain has a processing capacity of 100 trillion instructions per second...the number of internal thought pathways that your brain is capable of producing is:\n\none followed by 10.5 million kilometers of standard typewritten zero's!\n\nCurrent estimates of brain capacity range from 1 to 1000 terabytes!\n  \n"Robert Birge (Syracuse University) who studies the storage of data in\nproteins, estimated in 1996 that the memory capacity of the brain was\nbetween one and ten terabytes, with a most likely value of 3\nterabytes. Such estimates are generally based on counting neurons and\nassuming each neuron holds 1 bit. Bear in mind that the brain has\nbetter algorithms for compressing certain types of information than\ncomputers do."\nhttp://www.sizes.com/people/brain.htm
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100 trillion bits of information is what the human brain can store. it can alway be exceeded though as the brain then utilises the same zones and creates files just like winzip does which are common.
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Even Albert Einstien could not use 100% of his brain. According to a research , humans use only 10% of their brain and Einstien used 90% of his intellect. So you can realise what the potential of human brain is. If at all you come to know how one can use 100 % of his brain , let me know too.And if you are able to do so, I hail to you as a true genius(no kidding).All the best , may god bless you!\nYours sincerely,\nVanchit