You only use 10% of your brain...

[Eddi]

There is a myth in circulation that humans only use 10% of their brains:

Ten percent of the brain myth - Wikipedia

It has been decisively debunked

However, I think there may be some truth in it...

I believe that humans are actually super-intelligent artificially intelligent virtual people who are living in a computer simulation...

I believe that our super intelligence has been dialled down to human levels, and that the workings of our minds have been modelled on the workings of comparativley limited organic brains - as our job is to help simulate humankind, which I believe has actually gone extinct in the world outside The Simulation (see this old thread)

 

[Sirona]

Dunno whether they still do, but I recall the argument that "we only use 10% of our brains" as a marketing slogan used by Scientology, together with a picture of Albert Einstein.

If you believe in simulation theory, then what would be the purpose of said simulation? In Simulacron-3, the book which was adapted as World on a Wire and The 13th Floor, the purpose of it was marketing research.

 

[Eddi]

If you believe in simulation theory, then what would be the purpose of said simulation?

To recreate humankind

 

[icehorse]

The various simulation theories can be set up to be non-falsifiable, which makes them less fun.

BUT, what we can say, is that if this IS all a simulation, it sure takes a LOT of computing power to keep it all running

 

[Secret Chief]

10% seems wildly optimistic in regard to some people.

 

[Heyo]

There is a myth in circulation that humans only use 10% of their brains:

Ten percent of the brain myth - Wikipedia

It has been decisively debunked

However, I think there may be some truth in it...

I believe that humans are actually super-intelligent artificially intelligent virtual people who are living in a computer simulation...

I believe that our super intelligence has been dialled down to human levels, and that the workings of our minds have been modelled on the workings of comparativley limited organic brains - as our job is to help simulate humankind, which I believe has actually gone extinct in the world outside The Simulation (see this old thread)

If anyone, least of all Einstein, has said something about 10% and the brain, it may have been misinterpreted by someone using less than 10%.

We use only 10% of the potential of our brains.

In that form it makes sense. With some training everyone could remember hundreds of items, calculate simple to medium numerical problems in their head, be much more aware of their surroundings and learn to focus much better.
The potential is there. It's just a question if you want to unlock it (and put the work in). It's the same question if you want to go to the gym and unlock the potential of your muscles.

 

[metis]

There is a myth in circulation that humans only use 10% of their brains:

Ten percent of the brain myth - Wikipedia

It has been decisively debunked

However, I think there may be some truth in it...

I believe that humans are actually super-intelligent artificially intelligent virtual people who are living in a computer simulation...

I believe that our super intelligence has been dialled down to human levels, and that the workings of our minds have been modelled on the workings of comparativley limited organic brains - as our job is to help simulate humankind, which I believe has actually gone extinct in the world outside The Simulation (see this old thread)

In my case, my wife tells me that 10% is way too high. I wonder what she means by that?

 

[SigurdReginson]

Yah... I'm not sure I use only 10% of my brain because of any kind of restricted super human intelligence, but that certainly sounds nicer to me than it being because I'm the product of severe inbreeding 20 generations in.

 

[Duke_Leto]

It's true in the sense that you use 33% of a stoplight.