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In article <3F54A1E6.7@xympatico.ca>,
Joe Legris <jalegris@xympatico.ca> wrote:
[quote]jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
In article <3F5499D2.4000802@xympatico.ca>,
Joe Legris <jalegris@xympatico.ca> wrote:

RAGS Online wrote:

Albert Einstein said we use less than 10% of our brain>s capabilities.

How could I tap into the other 90%?

Are there any homestudy courses or books you guys recommend?

Thanks!

You already use all of your brain. What you want is to use it more
effectively. And the key to effective brain use is to do things that
require conscious effort, producing an outcome is related to that
effort.

Nope. I disagree. Effective brain use is to shortcut the "conscious
effort". Conscious effort takes a long time and uses up thinking cycles
that could be used for other things.

What other things?

Learning.[/quote]

/BAH

Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.

Joe Legris · Guest

jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
[quote]In article <3F54A1E6.7@xympatico.ca>,
Joe Legris <jalegris@xympatico.ca> wrote:

jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:

In article <3F5499D2.4000802@xympatico.ca>,
Joe Legris <jalegris@xympatico.ca> wrote:

RAGS Online wrote:

Albert Einstein said we use less than 10% of our brain>s capabilities.

How could I tap into the other 90%?

Are there any homestudy courses or books you guys recommend?

Thanks!

You already use all of your brain. What you want is to use it more
effectively. And the key to effective brain use is to do things that
require conscious effort, producing an outcome is related to that

effort.

Nope. I disagree. Effective brain use is to shortcut the "conscious
effort". Conscious effort takes a long time and uses up thinking cycles
that could be used for other things.

What other things?

Learning.

[/quote]
Sure. Learning occurs through the application of conscious effort, which
can be eventually be reduced to skills that are performed more or less
unconsciously. My point is that effective brain use is more than that -
the things that are learned must have an outcome that is functionally
related to that effort. We all learn useless information, some more than
others. I suspect that one aspect of intelligence is the ability to tell
the difference before expending the effort.

--
Joe Legris

Bill Vajk · Guest

Joe Legris wrote:

[quote]Sure. Learning occurs through the application of conscious effort, which
can be eventually be reduced to skills that are performed more or less
unconsciously.
[/quote]
Untrue.

Think "hot" as a great example. That one is most often a
reflexive response, as are many others such as drowning.

The two basic types of learning are named primary and
secondary. Primary is related to direct experience. What
you seem to be addressing is secondary learning, which is
through conscious effort acquisition of pertinent
information by proxy rather than direct experience.

[quote]My point is that effective brain use is more than that -
the things that are learned must have an outcome that is functionally
related to that effort. We all learn useless information, some more than
others. I suspect that one aspect of intelligence is the ability to tell
the difference before expending the effort.
[/quote]
Learning, as a subject, is covered in introductory psychology
courses and textbooks. I commend those to you if you>re interested
in discussing them; it might help keep you from making elementary
errors. A well rounded education demands knowledge in more than
one>s primary field of endeavor.

I have dropped sci.physics from the newsgroups this is wildly
OT there.

RefugeeDeveloper · Guest

when youre down to your last 10%, thats when you develop alzheimers.

(old age, lead poisening, excessive drug abuse)

they did a study of nuns who reached old age the ones with the extra
brain cells didnt develop alzheimers. apparently these ones had a
long winded poetic style of speech when young.

dnsnz@cs.com (RAGS Online) wrote in message news:<d847dcee.0309020040.3b7f5053@posting.google.com>...
[quote]Albert Einstein said we use less than 10% of our brain>s capabilities.

How could I tap into the other 90%?

Are there any homestudy courses or books you guys recommend?

Thanks![/quote]

Guest

In article <3F55DE59.5000101@xympatico.ca>,
Joe Legris <jalegris@xympatico.ca> wrote:
[quote]jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
In article <3F54A1E6.7@xympatico.ca>,
Joe Legris <jalegris@xympatico.ca> wrote:
snip[/quote]

[quote]Nope. I disagree. Effective brain use is to shortcut the "conscious
effort". Conscious effort takes a long time and
uses up thinking cycles
that could be used for other things.

What other things?

Learning.

Sure. Learning occurs through the application of conscious effort, which
can be eventually be reduced to skills that are performed more or less
unconsciously. My point is that effective brain use is more than that -
the things that are learned must have an outcome that is functionally
related to that effort.
[/quote]
That is an ideal. You cannot possibly know that the snippet you learned
today will prove useful sometime in the future.

[quote].. We all learn useless information, some more than
others. I suspect that one aspect of intelligence is the ability to tell
the difference before expending the effort.
[/quote]
It>s how you use the information that makes it useless. Look at
this newsgroup. It is awash with great information but cr^Wpeople
use it so they don>t have to do anything.

I also use the absence of information as data. This gets really
useful in debugging computing problems. It>s a requirement when
doing science.

When we designed something, the most amazing designs came from
some guy>s knowledge that seemed to have nothing to do with computers.
Before you ask, I can>t think of an example right now.

Innovation is putting two disparate facts together and producing
something new. This is a guy in Australia who has subscribed to
as many science and tech publications that he could afford throughout
his lifetime. He would get lots and lots and lots and lots and lots
of ideas. A few of them were useful.

The bottom line is that using your thinking ability productively
takes work..a lot of work. Some^WMost (sigh!) people don>t want
to work.

/BAH

Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.

Robert McCurdy · Guest

Plug yourself in.

"RAGS Online" <dnsnz@cs.com> wrote in message
news:d847dcee.0309020040.3b7f5053@posting.google.com...
[quote]Albert Einstein said we use less than 10% of our brain>s capabilities.

How could I tap into the other 90%?

Are there any homestudy courses or books you guys recommend?

Thanks![/quote]

Geeman · Guest

Didn>t Einstein postulate that if we were able to use the
full capacity of our brains we would become omnipotent
beings of pure energy?

Of course, if we only used 50% of our total capacities
we would probably annihilate ourselves by settling
every argument with lightning bolts from our fingertips.

Or, as I>ve said earlier, just become president and
you won>t even need a brain. Just strings for
industries to animate you.
And a ventriloquist with his hand up your ass.

Then again, GW _probably_ wears a hidden, mini ear bud
receiver that his handlers use to tell him what to say and do.
He>s a parrot, but I think he uses over 5% of his bird brain.

Lester Zick · Guest

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:29:08 -0400, Joe Legris <jalegris@xympatico.ca>
wrote:

[quote]Bill Vajk wrote:
Joe Legris wrote:
[/quote]
[. . .]

[quote]
I have dropped sci.physics from the newsgroups this is wildly
OT there.

Thanks for pruning the tree. I am looking at sci.cognitive and had not
noticed sci.physics in the list. There>s another respondent who insists
on posting "physics" questions to sci.cognitive, so maybe we>re even now
:-)
[/quote]
I rather suspect it>s the audience attracted by the alist as opposed
to the subject that>s unwelcome on sci.physics. Of course I may be
wrong. It might just be that the posters to sci.physics have no
interest in using their brains.

Regards - Lester

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John Jones · Guest

Einstein used ten per cent of HIS brain because the rest of HIS brain was
MARBLES.
No.. gotta give it to old einstein. He had an idea. God help us. There>s not
a lot of them about. Life is so much more organised enough ....without them.

Here>s a ships ditty-

The captain fell on his log
not once,
but twice once more on the bounce.
The captain fell on his log
not once,
but once twice more on the bounce.

JJ

Byron Canfield <barnNOSPAM@NOSPAMbyronc.com> wrote in message
news:M925b.335463$uu5.67868@sccrnsc04...
[quote]"John Jones" <scoobybites@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:bj1t3g$g82$4@titan.btinternet.com...
I use all of my brain all of the time. That way I get to count to ten
and
not miss out any numbers.
I always get the right answer, so I must be using my brain all of the
time.
JJ

RAGS Online <dnsnz@cs.com> wrote in message
news:d847dcee.0309020040.3b7f5053@posting.google.com...
Albert Einstein said we use less than 10% of our brain>s capabilities.

John, that kind of logic would tend to support that you use less than the
normal (mythical) 10%.

--
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
those who understand binary numbers and those who don>t."
-----------------------------
Byron "Barn" Canfield

[/quote]

John Jones · Guest

Einstein. Marbles at 10% marble free. Thats Einstein.
JJ
Uncle Al <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote in message
news:3F57FBBD.132CC553@hate.spam.net...
[quote]John Jones wrote:

Einstein used ten per cent of HIS brain because the rest of HIS brain
was
MARBLES.

http://b5.sdvc.uwyo.edu/bab5/snds/argcstpd.wav

If you are trying for an insult, try do do it from a position of
knowledge rather than one of social advocacy of equal rights for
idiots. If you want a minimal filling, jackass, bound it with minimal
surfaces.

http://www.susqu.edu/facstaff/b/brakke/evolver/examples/periodic/periodic.h[/quote]
tml>
[quote]http://www.uta.edu/optics/sudduth/4d/minimal/minimal_surfaces.htm
http://math.cl.uh.edu/~gray/Gifminsurfs/minsurf.html
http://www.gang.umass.edu/
http://www.indiana.edu/~minimal/
http://www.ugr.es/~fmartin/dibujos.htm

Here>s a little hint from Uncle Al about your own foam-filled skull:
"Voronoi."
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/chew/Delaunay.html

[snip]

"The two most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen and
stupidity," Harlan Ellison.

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" The Net![/quote]

John Jones · Guest

Are you saying that a neuroscientist believes in the idea of 'full brain
capabilities'.
Theres money in it you know, so think hard.

JJ

neepy <dsutherland7@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:d4bd1f7c.0309020538.4ca24efa@posting.google.com...
[quote]dnsnz@cs.com (RAGS Online) wrote in message
news:<d847dcee.0309020040.3b7f5053@posting.google.com>...
Albert Einstein said we use less than 10% of our brain>s capabilities.

How could I tap into the other 90%?

Are there any homestudy courses or books you guys recommend?

Thanks!

Einstein was wrong (after all, he was a physicist not a neuroscientist).

Start here (further links at bottom of page):

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html[/quote]

Steven Pruitt · Guest

HA!
"Geeman" <gedunk62@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3635337f.0309040452.75d9926a@posting.google.com...
[quote]Didn>t Einstein postulate that if we were able to use the
full capacity of our brains we would become omnipotent
beings of pure energy?

Of course, if we only used 50% of our total capacities
we would probably annihilate ourselves by settling
every argument with lightning bolts from our fingertips.

Or, as I>ve said earlier, just become president and
you won>t even need a brain. Just strings for
industries to animate you.
And a ventriloquist with his hand up your ass.

Then again, GW _probably_ wears a hidden, mini ear bud
receiver that his handlers use to tell him what to say and do.
He>s a parrot, but I think he uses over 5% of his bird brain.
[/quote]

TheMaker · Guest

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:33:26 +0000, jmfbahci wrote:

[quote]In article <3F55DE59.5000101@xympatico.ca>,
Joe Legris <jalegris@xympatico.ca> wrote:
jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
In article <3F54A1E6.7@xympatico.ca>,
Joe Legris <jalegris@xympatico.ca> wrote:
snip

Nope. I disagree. Effective brain use is to shortcut the "conscious
effort". Conscious effort takes a long time and uses up thinking
cycles
that could be used for other things.

What other things?

Learning.

Sure. Learning occurs through the application of conscious effort, which
can be eventually be reduced to skills that are performed more or less
unconsciously. My point is that effective brain use is more than that -
the things that are learned must have an outcome that is functionally
related to that effort.

That is an ideal. You cannot possibly know that the snippet you learned
today will prove useful sometime in the future.

.. We all learn useless information, some more than
others. I suspect that one aspect of intelligence is the ability to tell
the difference before expending the effort.

It>s how you use the information that makes it useless. Look at this
newsgroup. It is awash with great information but cr^Wpeople use it so
they don>t have to do anything.

I also use the absence of information as data. This gets really useful
in debugging computing problems. It>s a requirement when doing science.

When we designed something, the most amazing designs came from some
guy>s knowledge that seemed to have nothing to do with computers. Before
you ask, I can>t think of an example right now.

Innovation is putting two disparate facts together and producing
something new. This is a guy in Australia who has subscribed to as many
science and tech publications that he could afford throughout his
lifetime. He would get lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of
ideas. A few of them were useful.

The bottom line is that using your thinking ability productively takes
work..a lot of work. Some^WMost (sigh!) people don>t want to work.

/BAH

Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.
[/quote]
Don>t you think that if you could only use ten percent of your brain>s
potential, it would have rotted away by now from disuse? People actually
believing this line literally is one of my major pet peeves, right up
there with people using the phrase "pet peeves." Also, if we were only
using ten percent of our brains, then wouldn>t any brain damage be fine,
so long as you didn>t hit that sacred one-tenth? If you think I>m making
this all up, check out http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html .

--
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Joe Creaney · Guest

Geeman wrote:

[quote]pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<3F5473D2.6BF@mindspring.com>...

RAGS Online wrote:

Albert Einstein said we use less than 10% of our brain>s capabilities.

How could I tap into the other 90%?

Tan your own hide.

Are there any homestudy courses or books you guys recommend?

http://www.folkart.com/kinaca/jacket.htm#tanning

"American Indian wisdom says that
'every animal has enough volume of brains to tan its own hide.' "

Or just become president, then you won>t have to use your
brain at all.
Just do whatever the industry big shots tell you to.
[/quote]
Trash guys like Lincoln, Washington, Taft, Roosevelt and Clinton, Don>t
forget Chester Arthor.

Uncle Al · Guest

John Jones wrote:
[quote]
Einstein used ten per cent of HIS brain because the rest of HIS brain was
MARBLES.
[/quote]
http://b5.sdvc.uwyo.edu/bab5/snds/argcstpd.wav

If you are trying for an insult, try do do it from a position of
knowledge rather than one of social advocacy of equal rights for
idiots. If you want a minimal filling, jackass, bound it with minimal
surfaces.

<http://www.susqu.edu/facstaff/b/brakke/evolver/examples/periodic/periodic.html>
<http://www.uta.edu/optics/sudduth/4d/minimal/minimal_surfaces.htm>
http://math.cl.uh.edu/~gray/Gifminsurfs/minsurf.html
http://www.gang.umass.edu/
http://www.indiana.edu/~minimal/
http://www.ugr.es/~fmartin/dibujos.htm

Here>s a little hint from Uncle Al about your own foam-filled skull:
"Voronoi."
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/chew/Delaunay.html

[snip]

"The two most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen and
stupidity," Harlan Ellison.

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" The Net!


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