>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate
<no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo"
> > <richardhughes103@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > :
> > > > > > >
> > > > >> It's one thing to speculate that we use only 10 percent
> > > > > of the brain's *potential* (although it's hard to say
> > > > > how one would arrive at a specific percentage); but the
> > > > > notion that we use only 10 percent of the brain itself
> > > > > is simply inaccurate.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I read somewhere recently that we only use around 10% of our
> > brains at
> > > > a time because if every neuron fired at once we would keel
over with
> > > > shock. The point was we don't use the SAME 10% all the time
but vary
> > > > it according to what we are doing.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I'm not sure about this. My understanding is that neurons are always
> > at least a little active,
> > > firing-wise. Certainly, if you've ever watched a neuron, they're
> > always active, physically.
> > > Fred Travis gives the statistic that 70% of the connections of our
> > brain change every day. I
> > > don't know if the 70% figure is correct, but I think ANY
> > reconfiguration of connections is
> > > due to the neurons seeking the maximum level of input from the
> > surrounding neurons.
> >
> >
> > I've read that only a small portion of all possible neural connections
> > are used daily or ever used. What is it 100 billion neurons (ok I
> > lokked it up "10 billion - 1 trillion for entire NS). With up to
> > 10,000 possible connections per neuron. How many possible states? (You
> > do the math). How many do we use. Will ever use? How many does someone
> > on Brahaman use? (ONE! haha)
>
> I believe that all the existing connections are used constantly,
Wow. way different than my sense of things. It would be useful and
instructive to find what the research actually say.
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