The percentage rating of brain usage to me is a total nonsense. Those researchers who came up with that claims didn't really know what was going on also. If you do read up more about how the brain function, the brain is like a System Unit (a whole computer).

And inside a computer you have different parts like GPU, CPU, sound cards and stuff. Our brain has specific regions just for that specific job. Some people who suffer from certain brain disease, neurologist sometimes temporary disables certain part of the brain to identify the problem.

You can't rate the brain like say "oh, my brain only running at 6%". Cuz your brain is not just one big part itself, its multiple parts joined and working together; a component. So if some random guy comes saying, "my brain is running at 100%!". So he's saying that the speech control part is working non-stop, aka he won't stop talking. Imagine every part working at maximum, fear control and all those- the person will go kookoo. Feel scared, brave, funny, and everything at the same time.

And the thing about being smart, to me everyone is smart. But the question is, smart in which situation?
Some of us might be PC pros, but if we were sent for guerilla warfares, how good are we? The only time when one is not smart, maybe brain disablilities...

This post has been edited by kingster113: Oct 15 2009, 12:55 AM