What percent of the brain did einstein use? I've always wondered
2006-10-04 14:55:18 · 5 answers · asked by LITTLE STAR 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Everybody uses all their brain unless they are brain damaged. How effectively they use their brain is another question.
2006-10-04 15:02:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you packed together all the cells in the brain, neurons and glial cells, all 100 billion of them, they would make a ball about 10% of the brain's size. Of course, neurons actually utilize the brain's full volume. The vast connectivity matrix throughout the brain allows us to think and do many things in complicated ways that we still do not understand. The most powerful brains are supposed to be the ones that have higher matrix densities. Roughly the 90% of the brain that is not neurons is the space in which cells reorganize their connections to optimize the brain's performance. In this sense the physical structure of our brain is constantly changing little by little. Therefore we use 100% our brain, even if the connectivity matrix is less or more dense than average. ... I think -- Someone out there should seriously correct me if i got it all or part wrong.
2006-10-04 15:58:55 · answer #2 · answered by Gary 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all of it. that's style of like asking how a lot of our heart can we use at a time. that's a familiar false impression human beings in elementary words use an exceedingly small component to their mind. in elementary words a small volume of that's in touch with unsleeping idea. the vast majority of that's curious about coping with the set of institutions we base our options on. that is in simple terms the wondering section. large sections are in touch with deciphering sensory information. Sight is fullyyt an phantasm man made through the mind. as an social gathering, the elementary falling on the retina is an the different way up image which the mind flips 100 and eighty tiers. It then creates the colors we are able to not bodily see, like yellow (it quite is a complete lack of blue, which we may be able to work out). we are using one hundred% of our mind, as quickly as we may be able to. Human brains take 20% of each and every of the energy we eat. that's so skill depending that that's the first organ to die if blood move stops. The mind is carefully destroyed interior 3 minutes.
2016-12-04 06:58:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We use all of our brain. The theory of humans only using a small percentage of the brain is a myth.
2006-10-04 15:03:42 · answer #4 · answered by Krynne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We use all of our brain. The idea that we only use 10% of our brain is a myth.
2006-10-04 14:57:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋