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Author Topic:   Humans only use approximately 10% of their brain?
Ken Fabos
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Message 22 of 31 (638236)
10-20-2011 6:27 PM


Just a figure of speech.
I always took the 10% claim to be an off the cuff rhetorical remark of Einstein's that referred to undeveloped mental skills and was never literally about brain function. It's always been a bit bemusing to me that many people took it literally, as if Einstein's genius extended to brain physiology. Whether Einstein was repeating something from elsewhere that may have been more literal... I'm not aware of it but it's possible.

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Ken Fabos
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Message 24 of 31 (638243)
10-20-2011 8:52 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by Dr Adequate
10-20-2011 6:30 PM


Re: Just a figure of speech.
Einstein has been attributed with saying most people only use 10% of their brain which was the context in which I first heard it. It may have been a misquote but the attribution persists and still crops up. I had the impression his remark, (real or media hyped) helped embed the idea in the public psyche.
In any case I always took it to be a figure of speech, not assertion of physical fact.
Edited by Ken Fabos, : No reason given.

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