anybody interested in this thread should pick up a copy of "The Accidental Mind", it's an amazing book about why the impressive concepts of the brain are nothing more than evolutionary ice-cream scoops, just building up on past developments.

Like intuition... if you close your eyes and someone holds something out in front of you, there is a high percentage that you will find it with your hand on the first try. This is an archaic type of "sight" that our early early early ancestors had, I'm talking swimming boogers ancestors.

It's really quite an amazing book.

and ps...on the whole "we don't use more than 10-15% of our brain", as far as I've understood it that's only slightly true... we utilize all of our brain, but we don't use more than 10-15% of it at a given time.

Apparantly if we used all of the parts in our brain simultaneously, the firing synapses would send us into seizures. We've been set up with a brain that we are physically incapable of utilizing to it's full potential. Funny.