Have you seen Lucy ? The movie release in July 2014 and starring Morgan Freeman and Scarlett Johansson, So in this film is told Scarlett turned super clever, could learn a thing with a super fast, super knows many things, super good at martial arts, until have a super power, like telekinesis ability, stop the time , and so on.
In the film, I think personally , it's just another action-science fiction movie. its Okay for entertainment spare time. Moreover, if you like the sexy Scarlett act in action movies but, here the film makes me facepalm. Especially if you are the same fans know science plus Morgan Freeman also
Overall the film's plot is based on the premise that we are only the make 10% of the total capacity of our brains. Alleged ane still quite a lot of who read this also still believe in this premise. Some of you may also be there just had to watch Lucy, then lulled to daydream ability of any kind that you can dapetkan if you can a make over 10% of your brain. Well, for the sake of science I've to say: "That's total nonsense!"
do you know if the premise of the "average man uses only 10% of his brain capacity" it is one of the biggest misconceptions in biology, especially of the brain.
Very wrong, but very popular. Somehow the brain often really so black sheep surrounded by many myths, pseudoscience, and misconceptions. By the way you can also see surgery on the brain in the article that discusses misconceptions right-left brain and midbrain activation. But how the story if "humans only use 10% of our brains"?
Over the years, many doctors, neuroscientists, and science journalists already tried to explain patiently to anyone who would listen that none of the scientific basis for the myth of the brain is 10%. But this myth still wrote alive and popular. How can something that is really wrong can remain so popular? Let's discuss it.
Origins MYTH BRAIN 10%
All of this stems from the findings of science misintepretasi still not complete a hundred years ago.
At the beginning of the 20th century, a medical researcher who studied the brains of animals and patients with stroke found that different parts of the brain control different activities. For example, parts of the brain A function turns on certain body parts, such as the lips, the brain B turned out to function on other body parts, such as the little finger of the left hand, and so on. His method is to try to give an electric shock to a particular brain area to map the function of each part of the brain. So they want to see, if I stun here, approximately affect the function or part of the body. Oh for example, if I give an electric shock to the oculomotor nerve in the brain, my eyelids move.
Well, with such methods, scientists are trying to map brain function shocked with the effect of stimulation of the motor movement (motion) human. The result? only 10% of the brain are giving respond when stimulated with electricity. While 90% of the other parts of the brain, there is no single muscle in the body that move or twitch a little. Scientists at that time 90% of the area labeled as the silent cortex because its function is unknown. Remember, "unknown" does not mean "do not function at all"
Unfortunately, the people of the realm of non-science at that time assumed 90% of the area is completely dormant (inactive ga) permanent. This is where the misconception 10% of the brain begins. This premise deh tuh started popping up in the self-help books, motivation, films (one of which Lucy's movies), until springing also programs for brain enhancer. One well-known and thought to be the first book that uses this premise is the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie in 1936. This book became one of the self-development books are the best selling anyway. But then emang understandable anyway because the book was written at the time science has not developed like this, and the contents of the book is also not fully discussed on this context.
Moreover, even some that link the brain 10% this premise with Albert Einstein., That actually Sejenius Einstein who wrote it turns out only using 10% of his brain. They say that Einstein himself said that. I do not know ane also do not know also why there is such a silly claim. Perhaps because Albert Einstein frequently used as a symbol of a genius, so often used also the name of magnitude. Finally anyway in 2004, a comprehensive search of the Einstein archives at the California Institute of Technology have found no evidence at all if Einstein once made a similar premise.
CURRENT SCIENCE ANSWERED misconceptions BRAIN 10%
Did you remember Biology Grade 7 or Grade 10 junior high school about the Scientific Method? Here we learn if science is constantly evolving and should always be open to falsifiable (broken) if there is evidence and recent data found or the new more comprehensive understanding. So science should have an auto-critic or properties should always be able to re-evaluate their understanding.
Well, the same thing should also apply to any phenomenon that is claimed by scientists, including research on the brain 100 years ago. Brain researchers today already have more sophisticated equipment so that it can take a much more precise conclusions about brain function mapping of the human body akvitias. To observe brain function, we already have the fMRI, CT scans, and PET scans, EEG, etc. which results can be analyzed quantitatively and graphics with great precision on the computer. Certainly very different at age 100 years ago, scientists equipment when it's just a flip of electrodes that can only love doang electric shock.
With the advanced tools we have now, we can observe the virtual activity of the brain (not just a physical activity only), for example, brain waves or hormones that react in the brain. The fourth tool above can memebantu researchers and medical workers to know much more accurately part of the brain that control specific activities. Now, with advanced tools was also found that there tuh ga dormant parts of the brain. 90% silent cortex also has a function, which is the center of human cognitive control, such as the ability to think and use language.
Yes wonder if 90% were given electric shock ga make a muscle in our body twitching, yet its function is not for the motor (movement), but rather to a function that can not be observed with the naked eye, such as a function to be able to think logically, to understand verbal language, or to capture the emotions of others. Yes such a thing where possible to detect the same-past experimental device, which can only see the results of stimulation that is motor (movement) only.
It is true that if different parts of the brain have different functions, and not all of them work at the same time. However, brain scans over a period of 24 hours, suggesting that all parts of the brain we definitely used and continue to be active in one day. You fit again daydreaming and nothing to do well, your brain is still working. Even while you sleep, such as the frontal cortex section, which controls thinking skills, self-awareness, and somatosensory still active. So if you sleep, you could be woken up if you told your mom shopping at the mini market
Moreover, if the right man for this may be fine to use 10% of his brain, meaning 90% of its dormant in vain? Using an evolutionary perspective, this is not efficient at all. The brain was consumptive buildup in the body's energy usage. Although brain weight compared to only 5% of our total body weight, organ consumes up to 20% of the supply of oxygen and glucose in the body. why do we retain 90% of the brain other for thousands of years of evolution if emang without it we can still move well? Why not "eliminated"?
In fact, if humans only use 10% of his brain, we would be very susceptible to the disorder otak.not a single area of the brain that in inactivating will not cause fatal effects. 90% of inactive brain was already the same time as the coma. The fact you are again read my writing now is evidence that your brain can still work 100% anyway. If there is 1% of your brain are not working, you probably already crippled or dying
WHY BRAIN MYTH 10% STILL POPULAR?
Although it is now more advanced scientific knowledge, existing data and presentation logic to break this myth, but why this myth is still popular?
The premise of "humans only use 10% of his brain capacity" seemed to give hope that we can be more than we are now. Hope that there is a way to develop our potential further than that now.
People love fairy tale. You may still often tempted to daydream, "is it possible spider on Spiderman movie is real?", "Is it possible that I was exposed to radioactive rays, I could be a mutant as in the X-Men?", or "I wish I could 100% maximize my brain, I might be able to go to Harvard "
The premise of "humans only use 10% of his brain capacity" gives us hope if there's so much more to unlock. Try to imagine if there is a motivator or sales brain programs that offer to you, "By following the activation training the brain 90% of us, at a cost of 3 million, within 2 months, you will be able to grades 100 all, pass high school graduate, master 5 language, and so on and so forth .. "
The impression might be silly for you who already know about these misconceptions. But for the uninitiated or lazy to find out, yes it could be a very tempting offer. For some reason, many people who are always tempted to boost our ability to cut corners, especially if you've spiced smell science, wah more convinced aja tuh. Whereas in question actually can not distinguish the real science that's just the same pseudoscience.
It makes sad is, a lot of pseudoscience sold to bring in profit. Actually, this is nothing to worry about if only the people would continue to learn, critical thinking, and always assess the knowledge they dapetkan. But laziness is probably what makes people why this myth alive and popular. Direpetisi even continue to be part of the urban legend of our society. Happens when the premise could bring in money, we are so lazy accept new findings or alter his belief that even shut down the source of their money
But of course there are right ways for developing our potential? Yes of course there is. But would you like today vs. potential potential you'll already more developed, you just keep using the same brain as 100%. The potential of Bill Gates and the potential that I have equally based on the use of the brain as 100%.
and how to develop our potential?
Potential and achievement that is the resultant of hard work and passion to achieve your dreams. Ga no such thing as a shortcut. Want to graduate school? Yes continuous and effective learning. Want good at drawing or self-defense? Yes continue training and evaluation.
Further you can read the story of the student finalists of the Google Science Fair 2014 already become the inventors at the age of adolescence, or Pacqiou Many stories that successfully polish the image capabilities of the ordinary so cool. See, already so many that I mentioned.
So now if you'll still have friends who still believe in the myth of the brain 10% of this, you can tell if it's just a misconception. The fact that this myth is still popular in fact new evidence that humans seem to understand 10% of our brains.
Awesome Stay, Stay Critical!
