I think it looks like a good movie...So if the story is told nicely it should be fine...movies exaggerate to build the story...I mean it's not like there really are transformers or zombies (ok, I have seen some zombies) but you know what I mean.
The movie Lucy, human only use 10% of their brain.
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The 10% myth, sadly propogated among many even non JW's feeds into the helpless sinner mentality. What it really reffers to is not so much 10% mass of brain used rather to most people using only a fraction of the potential of their brain power. Many the last thing they want to do is think. I am greatly looking forward to seeing this movie, loved the trailer.
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Viviane
Neurologist Barry Gordon describes the myth as laughably false, adding, "we use virtually every part of the brain, and that [most of] the brain is active almost all the time". [ 1 ] Neuroscientist Barry Beyerstein sets out seven kinds of evidence refuting the ten percent myth: [ 12 ]
- Studies of brain damage: If 90% of the brain is normally unused, then damage to these areas should not impair performance. Instead, there is almost no area of the brain that can be damaged without loss of abilities. Even slight damage to small areas of the brain can have profound effects.
- Brain scans have shown that no matter what we're doing, our brains are always active. Some areas are more active at any one time than others, but unless we have brain damage, there is no one part of the brain that is absolutely not functioning.
- Evolution: The brain is enormously costly to the rest of the body, in terms of oxygen and nutrient consumption. It can require up to 20% of the body's energy—more than any other organ—despite making up only 2% of the human body by weight. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] If 90% of it were unnecessary, there would be a large survival advantage to humans with smaller, more efficient brains. If this were true, the process of natural selection would have eliminated the inefficient brains. It is also highly unlikely that a brain with so much redundant matter would have evolved in the first place.
- Brain imaging: Technologies such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allow the activity of the living brain to be monitored. They reveal that even during sleep, all parts of the brain show some level of activity. Only in the case of serious damage does a brain have "silent" areas.
- Localization of function: Rather than acting as a single mass, the brain has distinct regions for different kinds of information processing. Decades of research have gone into mapping functions onto areas of the brain, and no function-less areas have been found.
- Microstructural analysis: In the single-unit recording technique, researchers insert a tiny electrode into the brain to monitor the activity of a single cell. If 90% of cells were unused, then this technique would have revealed that.
- Neural disease: Brain cells that are not used have a tendency to degenerate. Hence if 90% of the brain were inactive, autopsy of adult brains would reveal large-scale degeneration.
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Viviane
I mean a computer doesn't use all of it's memory at once or it will crash but you still use 100% of the computer.
The brain/computer analogy is a poor one at best. A computer can use more than 100% of it's physical memory!