• Question: How close are we to full use of our brain power?

    Asked by empire6 to Clare, Mariana, Pedro, Robert, Susanne on 15 Nov 2012. This question was also asked by spiderpigjam.
    • Photo: Susanne Muekusch

      Susanne Muekusch answered on 15 Nov 2012:

      Hi empire6,

      It is actually a myth that we do not use our full brain power. Probably you heard something like “We only use 10 percent of our brain”. But we just do not understand, what we use it for!

      Different areas in the brain are known to be used in different tasks like talking, seeing, hearing, etc. For many areas we don’t know exactly what their job is, but we still need them.

      I don’t think there is much room left to increase our brain power- we have to live with it the way it is! 🙂 But on a certain task, every brain gets better, if you train it.

    • Photo: Clare Taylor

      Clare Taylor answered on 15 Nov 2012:

      I’m pretty certain I use every tiny bit of brain power I have! I’m still learning every single day so I’m not at full capacity although I think my brain is now a bit selective about what it has to remember because I forget things all the time! Maybe it has to make room for the new stuff… It would be awesome if we could fully understand the complexity of our brains but maybe we won’t ever know!

    • Photo: Mariana Campos

      Mariana Campos answered on 18 Nov 2012:

      I agree with Susanne. It is a myth that we don’t use our full brain. If you put someone in a scanning machine that shows the brain, all the areas of the brain light up, that means that all of them are being used. Maybe what happens is that we don’t know what they do, but for sure they do something.

    • Photo: Robert Insall

      Robert Insall answered on 18 Nov 2012:

      I’m not sure I could possibly think in harder. I would LOVE to be cleverer though. Hope someone invents a pill to help me.

      Maybe you, in a few years time?

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