Q. How Much Of Our Brains Do We Actually Use ?

A. Some may think that we use 10% of our brains , The 10% statement may have been started with a misquote of Albert Einstein or the misinterpretation of the work of Pierre Flourens in the 1800s. It may have been William James who wrote in 1908: "We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources" Perhaps it was the work of Karl Lashley in the 1920s and 1930s that started it. Lashley removed large areas of the cerebral cortex in rats and found that these animals could still relearn specific tasks. We now know that destruction of even small areas of the human brain can have devastating effects on behavior. That is one reason why neurosurgeons must carefully map the brain before removing brain tissue during operations for epilepsy or brain tumors: they want to make sure that essential areas of the brain are not damaged. Witch is actually a MYTH witch was stated in CLICK HERE

     What is the relationship between our brains and our minds?

Studies have stated and I don't mean to say that brains or minds are simple; brains are immensely complex machines-and so are what they do. I merely mean to say that the nature of their relationship is simple. Whenever we speak about a mind, we're referring to the processes that move our brains from state to state. Naturally, we cannot expect to find any compact description to cover every detail of all the processes in a human brain, because that would involve the details of the architectures of perhaps a hundred different sorts of computers, interconnected by thousands of specialized bundles of connections. It is an immensely complex matter of engineering. Nevertheless, when the mind is regarded, in principle, in terms of what the brain may do, many questions that are usually considered to be philosophical can now be recognized as merely psychological-because the long-sought connections between mind and brain do not involve two separate worlds, but merely relate two points of view.

                  
                                                   ALL ABOUT ME !

Hey everyone its Ina again its a new school year and this would officially be my first post. I'll like to take this time to introduce myself for those who don't know me as of yet. I was born in the South Bronx raised by my beautiful, strong, loving mother and step dad i have 6 siblings I love having fun traveling and being around my loved ones . During this semester i would love to explore so much about the brain , I'm interested in knowing how it works , how it thinks , how it sleeps, how it loves . I pretty much know that the brain controls how humans think and react but I kind of sometimes wonder how is it able to control our thoughts , movements , and decisions . But most importantly I'll like to know how do we maximize the percent of brain that we use ?