Quote Originally Posted by willystylle
lol sorry mrdevious if my post sounded a bit forward. No argument on my side either.

OnionsOfLove, your post actually confused me, but I can add this. According to researchers, a person with a higher intelligence fires less neurons than someone who has less intelligence. I'm not sure what they mean by 'intelligence', so I assume they're talking about IQ. So you are quite right in saying that the human brain is an enigma.

There was a documentary a while back about geniuses. There was this kid who was said to have one of the highest IQ's in the world. When they scanned his brain they found that his neruons were firing at the same rate as a normal teenager (neural pathways are made during childhood, the more connections made, the faster the brain is said to process information.) And yet his pathways were no more than anyone elses? So neural pathways are not the answer to intelligence.

But if a human brain were to operate at let say 25% capacity instead of 10%. By that I mean that the brain were to operate on 25% of the neural pathways available instead of 10% - it would not necessarily make you more intelligent, but perhaps the increased activity could realize some sort of telepathic ability (under the assumption of course that telepathy is a medical fact and not a paranormal one).

Would it then be possible to communicate with plants, animals and possibly other humans? Or would the extra neurons just cause a headache?
Maybe less neurons firing means more efficiency in information transfere? meh, maybe I should just not play neurosurgeon and let it be, but that's my best theory.