Is using 10% of our brain just a myth? (page 2)

aSphereisnotaCircle

Have you ever heard a doctor say,

"well when the bullet entered the scull, fortunately it hit the ninety percent of the brain we do not use"

LtCmd.Lore

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Neuroscientists say that during our present life span, we use just a small part of our potential brain power, only about 1/10,000, or 1/100 of 1 percent, according to one estimate. Think about it. Is it reasonable that we would be given a brain with such miraculous possibilities if it was never to be used fully? Is it not reasonable that humans, with the capacity for endless learning, were actually designed to live forever?
If that is true, why do we grow old? What went wrong? Why, after some 70 or 80 years, do we die, even though our bodies evidently were designed to last forever?

So we use less than 0.001% of our brain in our lifetime...

It must be true because 'Neuroscientists' say so...

MidwichCuckoo

The Society has said many times that we only use 10% of our brains.

The Society uses considerably less than 10%

Awakened07

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Neuroscientists [citation needed] say that during our present life span, we use just a small part of our potential brain power, only about 1/10,000, or 1/100 of 1 percent, according to one estimate.

hillary_step

Is using 10% of our brain just a myth?

It is for fans of Monster Truck Rallies. ;)

HS

Carmel

My JW family never used even 10%. What's amazing is that they were proud of the undisputed fact! carmel

jaguarbass

Good article. I think more than the society taught that we only use 10%. When I google how much of our brain do we use the myth seems to be out there beyond the wactowers borders.

return visitor

JWs have brains???

No they all share one!

WHO

Here's what the master says about it:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_028.html

JW's have regularly use the 10% myth to show we will live forever. "We can fit so much more in" which is ignorant. If we have "filled" 10% in 80 years it indicates a limit. So in 1000 years, 1 million, 1 billion - sometime in the future it will be filled with memories. Yet the Watchtower claims humans will live eternally on earth. We have a finite capacity but an infinite amount of memories and knowledge to come.