What is our empty part of our brain being used for.

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• Aug 16, 2009 by ■ 2Stridentflagged as abuse - show comment

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  Yikes Plinio! What about atheists? Does this mean that 80% of my brain is completely dormant?

  Don't tell my wife. She's already thinks most of my brain is utterly useless, this will only serve to reenforce that notion. :)

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• Aug 16, 2009 by ■ Plinio Granadoflagged as abuse - show comment

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  Well Stride just imagine my brain At 74 years old. I think my percentage of useable cells--------------- I forgot what I was going to say. lol

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• Aug 16, 2009 by ■ Plinio Granadoflagged as abuse - show comment

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  Yikes Plinio! What about atheists? Does this mean that 80% of my brain is completely dormant?

  Don't tell my wife. She's already thinks most of my brain is utterly useless, this will only serve to reenforce that notion. :)

  Even atheist have some kind of contact with nature.

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• Aug 17, 2009 by ■ 2Stridentflagged as abuse - show comment

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  Hey Plinio

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  Well Stride just imagine my brain At 74 years old. I think my percentage of useable cells--------------- I forgot what I was going to say. lol

  I'd say you're holding your own just fine sir. How many 74 year olds do you know who can teach the grandkids a thing or two about blogging?

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  Even atheist have some kind of contact with nature.

  Can't underestimate the power of the numinous, often underestimated by my fellow non-believers. 80% of our neurology though? That's a hard sell for me, I've heard that said before as well, but I'm not sure what evidence there is to support that claim. It has to said though that some rare people do seem to be able to do unthinkably complicated things with their minds. I refer to savant syndrome etc. Food for thought there.

  Thanks Plinio

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• Aug 18, 2009 by ■ Plinio Granadoflagged as abuse - show comment

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  Hey Plinio

  I'd say you're holding your own just fine sir. How many 74 year olds do you know who can teach the grandkids a thing or two about blogging?

  Can't underestimate the power of the numinous, often underestimated by my fellow non-believers. 80% of our neurology though? That's a hard sell for me, I've heard that said before as well, but I'm not sure what evidence there is to support that claim. It has to said though that some rare people do seem to be able to do unthinkably complicated things with their minds. I refer to savant syndrome etc. Food for thought there.

  Thanks Plinio

  Savants do some hard to explain activities that may be going into that part of the brain.

  Don't worry though you are doing fine with what you are using.

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• Aug 31, 2009 by ■ R. David Rogersflagged as abuse - show comment

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  Hmmm... "They" again... this time they've been saying we use 10% of our brain. You should have heard them last time, going on about floating witches. You wonder how this stuff gets started.

  Nature doesn't really allow for superflous brain matter. The size of the human skull at birth is limited to the size of the birth canal. Nature is nothing, if not about economy. But even if there were such a thing... a blank spot in our brains unidentified and unexplored... wouldn't it be just a tad reckless to go defining it as "the god spot"?

  Well, yes it would be.... just a tad reckless. Heck, except that it doesn't exist, of course.

  But other than that.........

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• Sep 1, 2009 by ■ Plinio Granadoflagged as abuse - show comment

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  Thank you R.

  You are probably right on all counts.

  I was born by cesarean-section so according to what you say "The size of the human skull at birth is limited to the size of the birth canal". I must have a bigger brain.LOL

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• Sep 1, 2009 by ■ Plinio Granadoflagged as abuse - show comment

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  Hmmm... "They" again... this time they've been saying we use 10% of our brain. You should have heard them last time, going on about floating witches. You wonder how this stuff gets started.

  Nature doesn't really allow for superflous brain matter. The size of the human skull at birth is limited to the size of the birth canal. Nature is nothing, if not about economy. But even if there were such a thing... a blank spot in our brains unidentified and unexplored... wouldn't it be just a tad reckless to go defining it as "the god spot"?

  Well, yes it would be.... just a tad reckless. Heck, except that it doesn't exist, of course.

  But other than that.........

  Since the beginning of mankind man has dealt in mysticism. My contention is we must have a natural part of our brain sensing our connection to the cosmos. Given the fact that we have free will, We make up stories on what this connection is.

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• Sep 30, 2009 by ■ Russell Proctorflagged as abuse - show comment

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  It's actually a fallacy that "we only use 10% of our brain". We actually use all of it, but only bits of it at any one time for normal everyday stuff. So it's more like we only use 10% of our brain at any one time.

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• Oct 1, 2009 by ■ Plinio Granadoflagged as abuse - show comment

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  It's actually a fallacy that "we only use 10% of our brain". We actually use all of it, but only bits of it at any one time for normal everyday stuff. So it's more like we only use 10% of our brain at any one time.

  Thank you for that information Russell. That makes a lot of sense to me.

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• Oct 2, 2009 by ■ 2Stridentflagged as abuse - show comment

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  Hey Plinio

  I came across this and immediately thought of this blog. Amazing stuff. Enjoy.

  Cheers,

  2S

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• Oct 3, 2009 by ■ Plinio Granadoflagged as abuse - show comment

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  Hey Plinio

  I came across this and immediately thought of this blog. Amazing stuff. Enjoy.

  Cheers,

  2S

  Double Wow! really something. thank you very much Stride. I can't even imagine whats going on in his brain.

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