Blog Post 2: 10%

  There is a myth of how using more than 10% of a person’s brain can allow them to be able to use unlock unreal powers such as superhuman intelligence, the ability to learn or understand a foreign language in a short amount of time, or have the amazing capabilities to suddenly develop psychokinesis. As amazing as that sounds, it is not something that is feasibly possible in the real world. The myth was so popularized that it has been incorporated into media such as movies, books, and others, and is even believed in by individuals to this day. As unreal as it may be thought, there are those individuals who claim they can use psychic abilities such as Uri Geller and his magic tricks such as that of bending a metal spoon using his mind.

Although individuals like Uri will have you believe, or the belief itself being spurred on by modern media surrounding the topic, scientists have proven that the myth itself is not real, however what is real is that humans already use more than 10% of their brains. Not only that, but it is not the same part of the brain. Using scans such as MRI, PET, and CT’s scientists have been able to see the way the brain’s activity and it shows that while active, the brain lights up continuously as what is known as Sparse coding takes place. Sparse coding helps keep the body from using too much of the body's atp reserves by using only what is requires of the brain to be active in any given moment. This includes while the individual is asleep, as the only time a person's brain is not active and firing signals to through the billions of tightly packed neurons in the brain is when they are deceased.

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