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- From: parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker)
- Subject: Re: EEGs, brainwaves, insults (Was Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer)
- References: <1993Jan16.004458.15845@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan18.223932.20137@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1993Jan19.061323.8952@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:59:04 GMT
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- mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
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- >Agrred. I suppose it relates back to that old saw about humans only
- >using 10% of our brain anyway.
- >So: Is this all because the rest is redundancy, or is it because the
- >rest has no real function, or another reason of your choice?
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- I thought it was 20%. I think it has more to do with replacement capacity
- than direct backup. (losses could be "fixed" by the more flexible unused
- part...) Of course this is just a theory (actually a hypothesis). But,
- after all, if it were a "backup" then it wouldn't be *unused* now would it?
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- > Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
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- -Rob
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