Is It True That We Human Only Access To 10% Of Our Brain?

[King11735]

Also if not 10% than what percent.please answer with proof.

[Mamyalynne]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_brain_myth

[janbee]

I doubt if some people use even that amount. e.g. politicians !

[weecalf]

Dont believe that .There is no part of the brain we can do without .So its all used .Somebody with nothing better to do came up with this nonsense.

[Prudie]

Ah, have you been to see 'Lucy' ?

[Old_Geezer]

After all this time anything we have must either be useful or has been and yet to be evolved out. To evolve the brain we have we must need, or at least find useful, pretty much all of it. Stands to reason.

[EDDIE51]

As Mamylynne's Link explains this is a myth. In reality the brain has so many different functions that only 10% is in use at any one time.
Imagine the brain as a gear box with 10 gears, only 1 could be used at one time using them all at once would burn it out.

[Booldawg]

I use Answerbank for the other 90%

[Svejk]

Look around you, king, look around. ;o)

[atalanta]

This idea may have arisen from the fact that neuroscientists can only actually identify with any approximate kind of accuracy the actual function of ten percent of the brain. And those areas are not always precisely the same in different people. Which makes brain science far more complex than rocket science. If, as I am told, there are more connections in the human brain than atoms in the universe, we shall never fully understand the brain's functions.

[jomifl]

If you have managed to learn to read and write you must have become aware that some people certainly appear to use only 10% of their brain and 90% of everybody else's.