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Larni
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Message 16 of 31 (634490)
09-22-2011 5:32 AM
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09-22-2011 5:12 AM


And they ignored factors that did not correlate with g.
Not good science, at all.

The above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer.
-Attributed to Buzsaw Message 53
Moreover that view is a blatantly anti-relativistic one. I'm rather inclined to think that space being relative to time and time relative to location should make such a naive hankering to pin-point an ultimate origin of anything, an aspiration that is not even wrong.
Well, Larni, let's say I much better know what I don't want to say than how exactly say what I do.

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Pressie
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Message 17 of 31 (634492)
09-22-2011 5:43 AM
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09-22-2011 5:32 AM


Larni writes:
Not good science, at all.
Not science, at all.
Edited by Pressie, : Erased the word "even" I inserted between the words "Not" and "science".

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Pressie
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Message 18 of 31 (634494)
09-22-2011 5:54 AM
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09-22-2011 5:20 AM


Larni.
My wife is way smaller than me. Her features are tiny. I guess that she has a smaller cranial capacity than me (with that cute little head of hers); but, boy, is she so much more intelligent than me!

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Larni
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Message 19 of 31 (634495)
09-22-2011 6:00 AM
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09-22-2011 5:54 AM


The suggestion is that the female brain is able to develop more conncetions than the male brain or that the connections are more efficient.
By that I mean using less tissue to get the job done: a bit like a road network that has the most efficient use of building materials to get you where you need to go.
I've always suspected that men think in straight lines where as women can think around corners (maybe one of my less scientific ideas).

The above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer.
-Attributed to Buzsaw Message 53
Moreover that view is a blatantly anti-relativistic one. I'm rather inclined to think that space being relative to time and time relative to location should make such a naive hankering to pin-point an ultimate origin of anything, an aspiration that is not even wrong.
Well, Larni, let's say I much better know what I don't want to say than how exactly say what I do.

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Pressie
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Message 20 of 31 (634496)
09-22-2011 6:14 AM
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09-22-2011 6:00 AM


I don't know. Never studied any kind of brain (I'm a geologist after all, I study rocks). What you say might be true!
From my point of view, with the fossils we've discovered, it seems like the average brain capacity of our ancestors to modern Homo Sapiens is just one of the indicators of our emergence. We also have to look at the rest of the body. I think we have to look at the proportions of brains to the rest of the body, too. That's what those pesty paleontologists have been doing for some time now. They've discovered this years ago. The creationists hate facts like this. They always want to be special.
Then you also talk about brain connections. Never thought of that before this thread! Isn't it so much easier to say "Goddidit" and don't have to think about it?
Edited by Pressie, : Added a paragraph

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frako
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Message 21 of 31 (634526)
09-22-2011 11:49 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by timothy223
10-10-2008 8:27 PM


Hi all, Im new to these forums. I have a simple question that I need answered:
I have heard it from science magazines, newspapers and various people that the average human only use approximately 10% of their brain.
*Reving up a chainsaw* What 90% do you think i can cut out?
Its a myth like god
I think the mythbusters also tacled this one and even when we do nothing and think of nothing we use more then 10% of our brain.

Christianity, One woman's lie about an affair that got seriously out of hand
Jesus was a dead jew on a stick nothing more

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Ken Fabos
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Message 22 of 31 (638236)
10-20-2011 6:27 PM


Just a figure of speech.
I always took the 10% claim to be an off the cuff rhetorical remark of Einstein's that referred to undeveloped mental skills and was never literally about brain function. It's always been a bit bemusing to me that many people took it literally, as if Einstein's genius extended to brain physiology. Whether Einstein was repeating something from elsewhere that may have been more literal... I'm not aware of it but it's possible.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 23 of 31 (638239)
10-20-2011 6:30 PM
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10-20-2011 6:27 PM


Re: Just a figure of speech.
How did Einstein come into this?

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Ken Fabos
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Message 24 of 31 (638243)
10-20-2011 8:52 PM
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10-20-2011 6:30 PM


Re: Just a figure of speech.
Einstein has been attributed with saying most people only use 10% of their brain which was the context in which I first heard it. It may have been a misquote but the attribution persists and still crops up. I had the impression his remark, (real or media hyped) helped embed the idea in the public psyche.
In any case I always took it to be a figure of speech, not assertion of physical fact.
Edited by Ken Fabos, : No reason given.

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Nuggin
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Message 25 of 31 (638252)
10-21-2011 12:32 AM
Reply to: Message 19 by Larni
09-22-2011 6:00 AM


The suggestion is that the female brain is able to develop more conncetions than the male brain or that the connections are more efficient.
By that I mean using less tissue to get the job done: a bit like a road network that has the most efficient use of building materials to get you where you need to go.
I've always suspected that men think in straight lines where as women can think around corners (maybe one of my less scientific ideas).
total size is actually less important than surface area.
If the brain were like a grape, size would be the only factor. Instead, though, the brain is like a raisin with ridges and valleys. The more wrinkles, the more surface area. A small but very wrinkly brain could easily have more surface area than a brain many times it's size.

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Larni
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Message 26 of 31 (638270)
10-21-2011 4:20 AM
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10-21-2011 12:32 AM


You are right, of course.
Brain mass is not an incredibly accurate measure within species.
I seem to recall people with Autism tend to have more brain mass but it is arrayed in a less efficient manner (more roads to get to the destination and so forth).
No idea whether that's true or my faulty memory, though.

The above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer.
-Attributed to Buzsaw Message 53
Moreover that view is a blatantly anti-relativistic one. I'm rather inclined to think that space being relative to time and time relative to location should make such a naive hankering to pin-point an ultimate origin of anything, an aspiration that is not even wrong.
Well, Larni, let's say I much better know what I don't want to say than how exactly say what I do.

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frako
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Message 27 of 31 (638274)
10-21-2011 7:31 AM
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10-20-2011 8:52 PM


Re: Just a figure of speech.
He probably meant that we dont "train" our brains very well and that our capacity for learning understanding reasoning and so forth could be much grater if we actually use our brains once in a while
If you compare the brain to a muscle if you dont use it it becomes weak if you use it like some train their muscles to become like Schwarzenegger your mental capacity could be 10 times grater.

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caffeine
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Message 28 of 31 (638277)
10-21-2011 8:36 AM


Origin of the myth
According to howstuffworks.com, the origin of this myth dates to early experiments on brain function in the 19th century. Researchers simulated different parts of brains to see what happened, and noted that simulating certain parts would elicit a response from certain muscles. Experimenting this way, they figured out what about 10% of the brain was involved in.
If this is true, then it appears that about 10% of the brain is involved in motor function directly, the rest it took us longer to figure out. They have a source for this little fact, but the link is broken, so I've no idea how reliable the information is.

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Larni
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Message 29 of 31 (638524)
10-23-2011 5:05 AM
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10-21-2011 8:36 AM


Re: Origin of the myth
Yeah, that's pretty similar to what I heard; that thinking uses around 10% but all the 'under the bonnet" work was not easily seen till modern times.

The above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer.
-Attributed to Buzsaw Message 53
Moreover that view is a blatantly anti-relativistic one. I'm rather inclined to think that space being relative to time and time relative to location should make such a naive hankering to pin-point an ultimate origin of anything, an aspiration that is not even wrong.
Well, Larni, let's say I much better know what I don't want to say than how exactly say what I do.

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dan4reason
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Message 30 of 31 (643915)
12-12-2011 11:19 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by timothy223
10-10-2008 8:27 PM


Wrong. Thats a myth. Humans use all of their brains.

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