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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: EEGs, brainwaves, insults (Was Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer)
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 03:03:06 GMT
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- In article <C1DxEH.Ep1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker) writes:
- >mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >
- >>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?
- >
- >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?
- >
- We talked about this some more in a later article, Rob. The actual
- fact of the matter is we don't know how much an individual uses, and
- it seems to vary widely (without haveing any direct impact on such
- 'measurables' as IQ). That's why I was calling it an old saw. It's a
- commonly held 'truth' that really isn't.
-
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- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
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