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 Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:22 am Post subject: Re: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities? |
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[quote]Subject: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities?
From: dnsnz@cs.com (RAGS Online)
Date: 9/2/2003 8:40 AM !!!First Boot!!!
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?
[/quote]
After letting the geeks on this ng proved themselves fools, I will now
seriously answer your question.
The primary problem is that you did not state your question correctly. At best
the geeks on this ng took your question too literally. All science geeks are
interested in is playing word games.
Here are two books that come closer to what your question should have been.
There are also other thing that you can do.
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440508274/102-2265542-19145
18?v=glance
by Michael J. Gelb
Think Like a Genius: Use Your Creativity in Ways That Will Enrich Your Life
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553379283/102-2265542-19145
18?v=glance
by Todd Siler
Brains have a characteristic called neuroplasticity. You can develop your
brain simply by using it. Good ways to do this is to challenge yourself
mentally on a daily basis. Turn off the television and radio. TV rots your
brain. Learn something challenging like playing a musical instrument or a new
foreign language, read books, solve puzzles, or even playing the game of chess
helps.
--
John Gohde
Email: Ngs@NaturalHealthPerspective.com
((((((((((( Left-Brain Mode ON ))))))))))))
Richmond, Virginia, USA, Planet Earth, The Sun, Milky Way galaxy |
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Wolf Kirchmeir
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: Einstein- UFO or ships ditty? |
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On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 19:58:05 -0700, Uncle Al wrote:
[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
[/quote]
Your irony and humour detectors are faulty. Sad case.
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Best Wishes,
Wolf Kirchmeir, Blind River ON
"Not that brains are everything --
you>ll also need a skull to put them in." (Nancy Franklin, 1997)
<just one w and plain ca for correct address> |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 2:34 pm Post subject: Re: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities? |
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In article <pan.2003.09.05.00.36.22.939126@G13net.CATcom>,
TheMaker <TheMaker@G13net.CATcom> wrote:
[quote]On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:33:26 +0000, jmfbahci wrote:
In article <3F55DE59.5000101@xympatico.ca>,
Joe Legris <jalegris@xympatico.ca> wrote:
snip..just cleaning up[/quote]
[quote]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.
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?
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Why rotted? I>d say it was carefully preserved in mothballs.
[quote].. 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?
[/quote]
You>re confusing the statement. Let>s use an analogy (yea, I know..
big mistake). A CPU has a certain capacity, let us call them MIPS.
When our OS didn>t have anything to do, JMF would have the
CPU run something we called the null job. If the system only did
useful computations 10% of the time, we considered it to be using
only 10% of its capacity. Note that the CPU was really running at
100% but not getting anything useful done.
Owners of this gear would used these numbers to decide
whether the guy in basement of the physics
building would be allowed to use the computer for his stuff between
22:00-07:00 without impacting the gals who entered the
student data during 8:00-17:00.
[quote].. If you think I>m making
this all up, check out http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html .
[/quote]
I don>t think you>re making stuff up. I>ve seen lots of psychs make
a lot of stuff up to get their funding.
/BAH
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David
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 5:06 pm Post subject: Re: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities? |
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"Richmond, Virginia, USA, Planet Earth, The Sun, Milky Way galaxy".
Who>s the geek?
johngohde@naturalhealthperspective.com (N-H-P) wrote in message news:<16a9b594.0309041922.7dfd525d@posting.google.com>...
[quote]Subject: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities?
From: dnsnz@cs.com (RAGS Online)
Date: 9/2/2003 8:40 AM !!!First Boot!!!
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?
After letting the geeks on this ng proved themselves fools, I will now
seriously answer your question.
The primary problem is that you did not state your question correctly. At best
the geeks on this ng took your question too literally. All science geeks are
interested in is playing word games.
Here are two books that come closer to what your question should have been.
There are also other thing that you can do.
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440508274/102-2265542-19145
18?v=glance
by Michael J. Gelb
Think Like a Genius: Use Your Creativity in Ways That Will Enrich Your Life
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553379283/102-2265542-19145
18?v=glance
by Todd Siler
Brains have a characteristic called neuroplasticity. You can develop your
brain simply by using it. Good ways to do this is to challenge yourself
mentally on a daily basis. Turn off the television and radio. TV rots your
brain. Learn something challenging like playing a musical instrument or a new
foreign language, read books, solve puzzles, or even playing the game of chess
helps.[/quote] |
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neepy
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 5:21 pm Post subject: Re: neuroscientist pep talk |
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"John Jones" <scoobybites@btopenworld.com> wrote in message news:<bj905h$be9$1@hercules.btinternet.com>...
[quote]Are you saying that a neuroscientist believes in the idea of 'full brain
capabilities'.
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Are you saying anything worth hearing? |
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neepy
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 5:34 pm Post subject: Re: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities? |
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johngohde@naturalhealthperspective.com (N-H-P) wrote in message news:<16a9b594.0309041922.7dfd525d@posting.google.com>...
[quote]
After letting the geeks on this ng proved themselves fools, I will now
seriously answer your question.
[/quote]
<SNIP>
Note: This is someone who opposes "evidence-based" medicine (and who
has business interests in doing just that):
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=g:thl2341143863d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=16a9b594.0308291201.50128b1%40posting.google.com
No surprise, then, that his "answer" here also ignores the scientific
evidence. |
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N-H-P
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 5:53 pm Post subject: Re: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities? |
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(N-H-P) wrote:
[quote]
Brains have a characteristic called neuroplasticity. You can develop your
brain simply by using it. Good ways to do this is to challenge yourself
mentally on a daily basis. Turn off the television and radio. TV rots your
brain. Learn something challenging like playing a musical instrument or a new
foreign language, read books, solve puzzles, or even playing the game of chess
helps.
[/quote]
I will repeat for the benefit of mentally challenged science geeks.
The *only* relevent term in this thread is neuroplasticity.
--
John Gohde,
Achieving good Nutrition is an Art, NOT a Science!
Get started on improving your personal health and fitness, today.
http://www.Tutorials.NaturalHealthPerspective.com/
Offering 14 easy to understand lessons that will change your life. |
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Geeman
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 4:29 am Post subject: Re: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities? |
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Joe Legris <jalegris@xympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<3F574410.7010502@xympatico.ca>...
[quote]Geeman wrote:
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?
I doubt Einstein would have uttered a line straight out of a Star Trek
script. It seems to me that a being of pure energy would have no
structure and would therefore represent exactly 1 bit of information -
he>s either detectable, or not. That>s a capacity that>s pretty easy to
fill, but hardly omnipotent.
The brain uses up a lot of energy, takes up a lot of space, is squeezed
perilously at birth and takes years of devoted effort by others to
train. How could humans have evolved such a big heavy lump if they were
incapable of using it reasonably efficiently in the regular course of
events?
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Well, Jeff Goldbloom said it in the movie, "Powder."
And he can turn into a big human fly and eat you up...
Seroiusly, though, the human brain and soul
-- yes, science people, there IS a soul --
holds fantastic, untapped power.
If we use psychotronic (anplification) devices, we really
could shoot lightning bolts from our fingertips.
That would make road rage more interesting, at least.
Psychic abilities would render telephones useless and we
would all gradually lose the ability to speak unless
specificallky trained to use atavistic verbalization.
Telekinetic abilities would make physical weapons and
many tools and machines more or less obsolete.
Learning would literally involve absorbing knowledge from
others through thought transference.
If such abilities suddenly became available we probably
would annihilate ourselves or come close to it.
Our level of wisdom has not kept pace with the power
of our technology. |
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Paul R. Mays
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 4:39 am Post subject: Re: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities? |
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If you want increase in brain function
you have to start before birth with data
input... and the first year must have massive input
even if input is not understood.. the first year
the synoptic pathways are being formed and
after the first year the hardware is pretty much
wired and your just working with the software
after that...
"N-H-P" <johngohde@naturalhealthperspective.com> wrote in message
news:16a9b594.0309050453.6bf6acd3@posting.google.com...
[quote](N-H-P) wrote:
Brains have a characteristic called neuroplasticity. You can develop
your
brain simply by using it. Good ways to do this is to challenge yourself
mentally on a daily basis. Turn off the television and radio. TV rots
your
brain. Learn something challenging like playing a musical instrument or
a new
foreign language, read books, solve puzzles, or even playing the game of
chess
helps.
I will repeat for the benefit of mentally challenged science geeks.
The *only* relevent term in this thread is neuroplasticity.
--
John Gohde,
Achieving good Nutrition is an Art, NOT a Science!
Get started on improving your personal health and fitness, today.
http://www.Tutorials.NaturalHealthPerspective.com/
Offering 14 easy to understand lessons that will change your life.[/quote] |
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Byron Canfield
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 10:13 pm Post subject: Re: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities? |
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"Geeman" <gedunk62@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[quote]Seroiusly, though, the human brain and soul
-- yes, science people, there IS a soul --
[/quote]
I have my own beliefs about what constitutes what is often described as the
"soul" (and which, I>m sure, differ greatly from yours), but nonetheless,
such a statement -- that there IS a soul -- is only properly qualified as an
opinion or a belief, since it is neither provable nor disprovable, which is
the penultimate definition of a NON-fact.
[quote]holds fantastic, untapped power.
If we use psychotronic (anplification) devices, we really
could shoot lightning bolts from our fingertips.
[/quote]
But that has nothing to do with the soul -- that would merely be an
amplification of the electrical impulses that we DO know occur already
(provable).
[quote]Psychic abilities would render telephones useless and we
would all gradually lose the ability to speak unless
specificallky trained to use atavistic verbalization.
Telekinetic abilities would make physical weapons and
many tools and machines more or less obsolete.
Learning would literally involve absorbing knowledge from
others through thought transference.
[/quote]
IF -- and that is still an "if" -- it can be determined the human brain is
capable of such things (also has nothing to do with the soul, however).
[quote]
If such abilities suddenly became available we probably
would annihilate ourselves or come close to it.
[/quote]
If the telepathic communication and transference (learning) skills were
acquired at the same time as the telekinetic abilities, I suspect there
would be a tendency AWAY from annihilation (almost a 180 degree turn away
from violence of all sorts) because deception would no longer be possible,
nor would the high degree of misunderstanding that presently occurs due to
the inadequacy of communication through language (or worse still, through
translated languages).
[quote]
Our level of wisdom has not kept pace with the power
of our technology.
[/quote]
The acquisition of the telepathic and telekinetic skills, however,
constitutes a swing AWAY from technology, not a move toward it -- instead of
using a pocket PC to keep track of appointments and phone numbers, one would
communicate directly with the appointee over long distances without the aid
of any technology at all, possibly even involving "transporting"
telekinetically from one location to another -- not only no batteries
included, none needed; less landfill from obsolete computer equipment and
other appliances; fewer cars on the road and less consumption of both
renewable AND non-renewable resources.
In fact, it could change the economy of the world so dramatically that such
a prospect would be quite threatening to the current global (particularly
U.S.) corporate greed.
--
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
those who understand binary numbers and those who don>t."
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Byron "Barn" Canfield |
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Lester Zick
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 12:33 am Post subject: Re: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities? |
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On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 17:13:37 GMT, "Byron Canfield"
<barnNOSPAM@NOSPAMbyronc.com> wrote:
[quote]"Geeman" <gedunk62@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3635337f.0309051529.468003af@posting.google.com...
Seroiusly, though, the human brain and soul
-- yes, science people, there IS a soul --
I have my own beliefs about what constitutes what is often described as the
"soul" (and which, I>m sure, differ greatly from yours), but nonetheless,
such a statement -- that there IS a soul -- is only properly qualified as an
opinion or a belief, since it is neither provable nor disprovable, which is
the penultimate definition of a NON-fact.
[/quote]
I think the statement can only be strictly considered unproven and not
necessarily unprovable.
[quote]
[. . .][/quote]
Regards - Lester |
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Cyde Weys
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 10:47 am Post subject: Re: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities? |
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Byron Canfield wrote:
[quote]since it is neither provable nor disprovable, which is
the penultimate definition of a NON-fact.
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Keep in mind that "penultimate" means second-to-last. Rephrasing your
sentence with that in mind ... it really doesn>t make any sense. |
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Alan Hogue
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 1:16 am Post subject: Re: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities? |
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Byron Canfield wrote:
[quote]"Geeman" <gedunk62@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3635337f.0309051529.468003af@posting.google.com...
Seroiusly, though, the human brain and soul
-- yes, science people, there IS a soul --
I have my own beliefs about what constitutes what is often described as the
"soul" (and which, I>m sure, differ greatly from yours), but nonetheless,
such a statement -- that there IS a soul -- is only properly qualified as an
opinion or a belief, since it is neither provable nor disprovable, which is
the penultimate definition of a NON-fact.
[/quote]
What would the ultimate be? |
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John H.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:01 am Post subject: Re: neuroscientist pep talk |
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If you could use 100% of your brain, or even much less, simultaneously, you
would burn your brain up. The brain is very sensitive to excessive activity.
So go ahead, find a way to make peoples' brain to work at maximum capacity,
and then get sued forever and a day. It just doesn>t make any biological
sense to presume that more is always better. Excessive dopamine and\or
dopamine activity can be very dangerous.
John.
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johnYYYcoe@tpg.com.au
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[quote]Are you saying that a neuroscientist believes in the idea of 'full brain
capabilities'.
Theres money in it you know, so think hard.
JJ
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dnsnz@cs.com (RAGS Online) wrote in message
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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
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Edward Green
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:15 am Post subject: Re: How could I use 100% of my brain>s capabilities? |
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dsutherland7@hotmail.com (neepy) 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]
Einstein may have been literally wrong, but it seems likely he was
right in some sense. Most people don>t think very hard very often ...
if conscious thinking is a measure of brain use. Excess thinking
capacity is often a burden rather than a boon in modern life, and best
extinguished. |
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