Weird misconceptions:

[wolven7]

That old saw about how you only use 10% of your brain? That's crap. Your brain is a distributed processor, and every part of it is used, no matter how much your're doing with it.

The thing of it is that people only use a small amount of their brain's potential. It's the difference between staring at a tree, listening to the wind, smelling the air, feeling the sun, and tasting something, all at once, and staring at a tree, composing a sonnet about it, listening to the wind while breaking down force vectors, describing a taste in colours, and reading Searle and Hofstadter.

You can either use your entire brain for a very few things, or you can use your entire brain for a great many things. It has the potential to process, produce, and otherwise operate a great many more things, on a great many more levels, than usually done.

You get what I'm saying?

Comments

[sadistic-apollo.livejournal.com]

course on the other side of the coin if a guy that has the encyclopedia sittin on his mind it's understandable if he sometimes forgets his phone number.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Processor power being used for way too many other things.

[sadistic-apollo.livejournal.com]

then again..

i'd be really surprised if people weren't aspiring to use that ten percent.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Well, it takes all kinds, or whatever.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Massively parallel computing. It's all that still separates us from the machines, now. *nods*

[wolven.livejournal.com]

And that for not that much longer. Blurring the lines. *Nods*

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

Now get a bunch of parallel processing computers together and wire 'em the same way...

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Interesting things.

[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of the General Ignorance round on Qi... It'd go:
Stephen Fry: How much of the brain do we use?
Alan Davies: 10%! :D
Klaxon: 10% 10% 10% (ie WRONG)
Stephen Fry: Oh, no, no, no, my dear boy! No, that is a misconception!


Everyone. Go watch Qi! Learn that what you always thought was true is actually wrong!

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I do keep meaning to watch that, actually. Look pretty cool.

[nausved.livejournal.com]

If we only used 10% of our brains, we wouldn't have such big brains. Nerve tissue absorbs a ton of calories. Such a monumental waste of energy would quickly be weeded out of the population, considering how many of our ancestors died of starvation and how many of us continue to starve to this day.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Precisely.

[theatreannie.livejournal.com]

Well, I think my brain's been getting worked out a bit lately- looking at the world of theatre from many new and interesting perspectives. It's work and it's a good thing.

Yesterday in a class we watched clips from Julie Taymor's Oedipus Rex- had to keep my mouth from hanging open I was so amazed with it. It's just wow.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I love Julie Taymor so much. Her Titus still sits with me as one of the best adaptations of Shakespeare, Ever.

[theatreannie.livejournal.com]

I'm taking classes with Eileen Blumenthal who has done a lot of work with Julie on a lot of things. It has been odd, I wasn't really aware of Julie until I started here and now that I've started here I notice here many places.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

You should go see "Across the Universe." Organise a group trip. It'll be awesome.