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>Studies of brain damage: If 10 percent of the brain is normally used, then damage to other areas should not impair performance This is unbelievably naive to u
by mapcars 4y ago
>Studies of brain damage: If 10 percent of the brain is normally used, then damage to other areas should not impair performance
This is unbelievably naive to use as some sort of proof, using 10% does not imply that its 10% of the physical organ. Rather 10% compared to what one could do with better training, improved lifestyle, etc. And this does not have to be purely intellectual, it can be imagination capabilities, communication skills or hundreds of other things which a particular individual did not develop fully.
- bryanrasmussen 4y agocounterpoint - people do take damage to brain and recover abilities, suggesting that the brain has redundancies built into it.
- mapcars 4y agoIt looks like it. I am not related to any brain studies so naturally I can not go deep into the topic. The main thing I wonder about here is does this redundancy mechanism come for free or does it come at the cost of some other (possibly untapped) potential?
- technothrasher 4y ago> Rather 10% compared to what one could do with better training, improved lifestyle, etc. If you're talking about 10% of some non-physical concept of brain "potential", then you have to define, potential WHAT? Creativity? Intelligence? Speed of thought? Hand/eye coordination? Something else deemed important? All of it? None of it? How could you possibly attach a 10% potential value to any of this unless you operationalize it down to some tiny measurable part that lose the gestalt? If we're not defining the 10% as physical brain area, then the 10% proposition seems not only unlikely true but likely meaningless, a priori.
- mapcars 4y agoI don't have to define or measure it. And this does not make it meaningless either. In fact most profound things in life can not be measured. Can you measure how much parents love their child? Can you measure how happy someone is to get a present they wanted? Can you measure how funny a joke is? Measuring everything is a stupid approach to life and things like brain development and human potential for sure are immeasurable but are the most significant.