You sounded very paranoid. Contribute towards the discussion instead, please.

We dont

I'm just trying to look at things in a slightly different and more optimistic view over something i know nothing about

But it would be interesting if perhaps we can use our conscious minds in more ways than just thinking.

Correction. Muscle cell can't grow and replace itself.. When you have a tear or an injury on a skeletal muscle, fibrous tissue will grow in it's place, thus replacing the muscle tissue in it's place. Thus you'll never gain 100 percent of it's function back...

And why would skeletal muscle seems to grow larger when we go to gym or workout? They undergo hyertrophy which is an increse in cell size, not hyperplasia which is an increase in number of cells...

I see. Thanks for clearing it up. I do admit this isn't my field of study, was just recalling some biology knowledge in SPM.

Did other animal fully utilized their brain?N any of it using more than 30% of their brain function?

I think the statement that we only use about 10% of our brain is subjected to debate. I suspect, this figures will be underestimated due to how we define brain usage. Please view the following website to study.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article....ercent-of-brain

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you know, some buddhist monks and yoga grand master can do that..... they train their mind in the way that they can control heart beat etc....

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Added on October 30, 2009, 9:20 ami think that animals do not have the notion conscious of self in its mind....

like new born baby,..... when it is born, the baby is alive.. but the concept I AM still not yet exist... can you remember when you are small
? eg 1 years old?? mostly is 2++


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the given statistic was created out of marketing gimmickry and further evolved into a miscontrued factoid.

nonetheless, we do utilize the full function our brain's capability. just that we are unable to conciously pinpoint what were the inputs and the outputs. if youre not aware of it does not mean it was not our brains functioning.

So, how do we utilize our brain usage? Pls dun tell me Buzan's mind-mapping.

IF a human can really gain access to all of his unconsious part of brain....he can really be called as God....

Y?
If he wounded(scratches/bullet hole)he can control the cell to regenerated faster,n by tat heal up faster.
If he is sick(lets say cancer)he can oso heal it up.
But he will die if his block get knocked off...

Having a 100% utilised brain doesn't mean the rest of the limbs/organs/body systems controlled by it will be "optimized" also.

Imagine the fastest/most perfect computer connected to an aeroplane. The capability of the aeroplace will still be limited to its physical built, so that computer won't be able to fly it to Mars and back (although it got all the route/calculations correct)

i studied neuroscience.

from what i can say, we can't literally use ALL our brain functions because of the limitations like gender, hormones, gifts, environment etc. boys tend to use a certain part of the brain at large, while the other part is not often used. people who has gifts in language and writing, they use the left side of the brain, with lesser holistic thoughts.

Darlin' I beg to differ. I write well and people say I am rather on the more creative side. I fail math 101 though, so call it what you will.

Some implications on the thoughts of boys eh? Sex sex sex food sex food food sex

Yeah...that's what I thought as well. I guess we are aliens. I think probably it's not always either you are left or right. It could be a combination.

All humans think using a combination of left and right brain. But which specific sites on the left/ right brain do we use? It differs that way honeys. Me too, I write well and on the creative side, but then calculus is something I hate to repeat on my freshie year lol xD

I cling well to the theory that human can't use all of our brain's POTENTIAL. "function" isn't a correct word, it might be misleading literally, like what we can see when we scroll along the thread lol. Human can't do that because of the gender, environment, race (yes, race ） and blood factor. That is what made human unique if compared to one another. The diff way of using our brains can be an invisible fingerprint too

Looks like God forgot to add in "Good with Mathematics" when he made me

I like the thought of environment though, considering how a good upbringing will in most cases make you a better person. Gotta start surrounding the kids with classical music and good literature from young.

how??

I just come across this terminology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairaudience...on_clairvoyance

Clairvoyance is rubbish. It is considered as pseudoscience. We can't credit clairvoyance just because we found some experiments that seem to show there is something wierd with the results. It can be attributed to many different things such as self deception. The brain is a complex biological machine and we are still learning about it to this day.

This is how I look at it. We can't say look at the data and say clairvoyance explains it. It's akin to how people use god to explain things they do not understand.

Maybe HE forbid us to fly by ourselves.

Btw there is no valid evidence that we use our brain 3-6% only.
How they proved still phailed tremendously.