Why I think our brains are so powerful

mind over matters what matters........:stoned:

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Originally Posted by Kottonmouth_Dude

quick fact. did you know that the average human only uses about 15 % of their brain??!!!??!!!!! meaning we still have another huge 85% to explore.

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As other members have pointed out, this is not completely true. We always use 100% of our brain. During everyday activities, we use about 15% of our brain power to perform those everyday functions, all of the remianing 85% is put to use thinking about sex.

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Originally Posted by Alexico

your brain is useless if you cant smell, hear, see, taste or feel. Imagine if you were born with no senses what so ever, then you wouldnt even have a concouis or anything because your concouis is the brains interpetation of sensories. Just need to get that approved to take a baby and tear its eyes out and rip out its tung, cut the nose off and give it pain killers. Then we can really find out what happens when a human does not even have any senses at all

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ya or what if just put it in one of those sensory deprivation chambers and fed it through tubes and shit.......haha it would probly look fucked up when you took it out

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Originally Posted by Alexico

your brain is useless if you cant smell, hear, see, taste or feel. Imagine if you were born with no senses what so ever, then you wouldnt even have a concouis or anything because your concouis is the brains interpetation of sensories. Just need to get that approved to take a baby and tear its eyes out and rip out its tung, cut the nose off and give it pain killers. Then we can really find out what happens when a human does not even have any senses at all

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Originally Posted by affasd

ya or what if just put it in one of those sensory deprivation chambers and fed it through tubes and shit.......haha it would probly look fucked up when you took it out

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You two should start a mad scientist club.

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Originally Posted by dragonrider

During everyday activities, we use about 15% of our brain power to perform those everyday functions, all of the remianing 85% is put to use thinking about sex.

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Well... i think its actually true for we men... but i dont know if its also true for women... unfortunately. :p

Did you know that your brain goes through 7 different process steps when making a decision? Even a simple questions posed to you, like, do you like pizza?..your brain goes through 7 steps and then you have your answer. I remember that from Gr. 11 psych...trippy eh?

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Also, when I fall I coordinate every single part of my body so perfectly that it amazes me. Every time I get out of a fall that could have easily broken bones without even a scratch. I do not know when I could have possibly learned to do this.

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I don't think your mind telepathically uses all your friends information to not fall :stoned:

BUT, I do think we have databases of stuff we didn't create or learned, maybe they come pre-installed in our minds from the collective unconscious of all beings :)

Hey, this is actually a subject I'm very interested in. If you didn't see my post, I'm going to grad. school for neuroscience. Now I don't want to put down anyone's beliefs, but I'll lay down some cool things I've learned.

As far as our brain's being quantum computers, you're pretty close to what our brains are really like. Although we don't calculate things at an atomic level, like a quantum computer, our brains work in a parallel processing manner (with some tasks serial). I mean we have dozens of processes going on at the same time in perfect concert to create the illusion of consciousness. This is a hotly debated topic, but I believe the syncing up of all our incoming sensory information and planning for the future at the same time is what we call consciousness.

One interesting thing about consciousness, that supports my former belief, is that there is no center in the brain to which all information goes to. There is really no start or end in the connections of all the cells in the brain, it makes a kind of neural net.

Each cell can make up to around 8,000 connections. You start with supposedly (no one has really counted) 100 billion neurons at the height of puberty. You can imagine how big the number of potential connections there are in the brain.

Each second (after puberty) you lose an average of 5,000 neurons to automatic cell death processes (to prune unnecessary connections/neurons).

The brain can use up all of its "resources" and be around 100% processing load at least for some specific tasks. For example, try reading and talking about a different subject. Its basically impossible because you only have a limited capacity for your "inner monologue" (I forget what its called).

Can't think of any more at the moment...

Your brain can actually slow relative time in tense situations. They did a test with a digital number board, in which the numbers were flicking by too fast too see under normal conditions, but for the first time bungie jumper it was easy to distingish the sequence. What is actually happening it you are seeing faster then normal, kind of like a video card, normally you get 32frames per second, but overclocked you get 60fps. This is also why people in tense situations report it feeling like it took place longer then it actually did. Time is just a chemical reaction within the brain anyway.

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Originally Posted by Alexico

your brain is useless if you cant smell, hear, see, taste or feel. Imagine if you were born with no senses what so ever, then you wouldnt even have a concouis or anything because your concouis is the brains interpetation of sensories.

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What if....by not having those senses...you would see life as it really is? Without filters...

Or what if, your brain took over and created false information to compensate for the senses. Now that could be wild too :jointsmile: