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To: tophat9000

“So it should be proven scientific fact that we really use near the full capacity of our brain instead this old fib we use only 10 to 15 percent ...”

Ah, I see what you are getting at there. Well, I think maybe the whole thing is framed in an ambiguous way. People talk about “capacity” or “potential”, but our brains aren’t like a bucket we fill up and can check where the level is at. So maybe we are just thinking about it all wrong.

We know that our brain is always making new connections and can adapt to some amazing degrees, so maybe we have to ask “is there a limit to how far we can push our brain?”


132 posted on 01/21/2015 6:09:54 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
I think that's fair statement.. I'm approaching the issue from the perspective of an engineer...

I know from an engineering perspective when I design a system I sometimes planning massive potential for future growth other words there's massive capacity that is not initially used...

But that's obviously an intelligent design decision by an engineer

nature should not do anything like that, it has no ability to see into the future and engineer major excess capability into a system...it's simply blindly picks winners and losers based on how well it functions in the environment at the current time.

ironically when we start to genetically designing new living beings we may very well design in massive excess capabilities that are not initially used but again that's an intelligent design decision made by an engineer.

so if we, the current systems, that were claiming are designed by nature really did have this massive excess capability then we've got a major problem in our understanding of how we came to be

one of the other has to be a false statement...I'm not making a claim of intelligent design

I was simply stating that the logic of a naturally evolved system does not fit with us having that excess capability

that's simply just following logic and reason to know one of the other must not be true

Im picking the latter that we don't have that much excess capability of the brain that it's commonly claimed.

But if scientific studies show we do have this massive excess brain capability ...they you must be at least open to seriously rethink on how we came to be..

134 posted on 01/22/2015 8:15:15 AM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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