Uncle Davey wrote:
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>>Bible Bob wrote:
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>>>>If I were a netkop, which I'm not, I'd be researching supernews' forgery
>>>>policy right now....
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>>>>Uncle Davey
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>>>Good work Uncle Davey
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>>Yes. See what happens when you do some elementary research before
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> posting?
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>>Shoulda done that before you yammered ignorantly about the "moon dust"
>>and the "we only use ten percent of our brains", huh.
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> I've already retracted the moon dust on the advice of other Christians, I
> was just pointing out that some, including my pastor, still isn't buying the
> retraction.
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> As for the percentage of brain use, so far, unless I missed something, there
> has been only anecdotal, journalistic evidence put up by the total use side.
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> Uncle Davey
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Davey,
It's been a while, but in grad school (both for psychology and
for archaeology), I read both texts and papers on the topic. The
"10%" is an urban legend.
If you've seen PET scans, and some other imaging, of human
brains, you will have seen that, at one time or another, the
entire brain is in active use. In fact, one way that we know
about the brain is by looking at brain activity under certain
stimuli.
We also have discovered, for instance, why it is that people
with ADD respond to a stimulant like Ritalin by becoming calmer
and more focused (an apparently paradoxical effect). Via PET
scans, it is known that folks with ADD naturally have lower brain
activity in the frontal lobe (responsible for filtering stimuli
by importance). With stimulants like Ritalin, the blood flow is
increased, and the effect on the frontal lobe is to have it
function more like it does in other people.
I don't have the references or research ready to hand; mayhap
someone else does?
Tom McDonald
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