FROM DILIP MUKERJEA

"Genius is in-born, may it never be still-born."

"Oysters, irritated by grains of sand, give birth to pearls. Brains, irritated by curiosity, give birth to ideas."

"Brainpower is the bridge to the future; it is what transports you from wishful thinking to willful doing."

"Unless you keep learning & growing, the status quo has no status."

Thursday, April 9, 2009

DO PEOPLE USE ONLY 10% OF THEIR BRAINS?

The following report in a belated issue of the 'Scientific American' throws some light on the foregoing question.

Nevertheless, I am intrigued by the concluding remark in the report:

". . . out of all the brain's cells, only 10 percent are neurons; the other 90 percent are glial cells, which encapsulate and support neurons, but whose function remains largely unknown.

Ultimately, it's not that we use 10 percent of our brains, merely that we only understand about 10 percent of how it functions."

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