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I just watched the film 'Limitless'.

What would happen if every scientist on the planet could use 100% of their brain? It would be like having millions of Einsteins. Near ftl-spaceflight would probably be possible, we could solve world hunger through efficient distribution of food, we could maybe finally understand QM, and build crazy fast computers.

>> No.2809931

your brain would fry out, its just like your heart, your heart cant pump 300 beats per minute and still be okay

>> No.2809934

>implying 10% brain usage

>> No.2809925

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>> No.2810025

>>2809934

The film said 20%. It's not like we have access to our subconsious. Then it wouldn't be <span class="math">sub[/spoiler], would it?

>> No.2810040

That's like saying "if every circuit of my computer was activated at once it would be really fast." More like, cease to be a computer.

>> No.2810052

>>2809904
We do use 100% of our brains, just only a part of them at a time.

>>2809934
See above.

>>2810025
By default, no you don't have access to your subconscious, but people have been able to train themselves to manually use their subconscious or things normally controlled by it (like being able to manually change your heart beat or how much blood comes out of a cut).

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2810060

>100%
>10%
>20%
bla blub blob

Will this disinfo never stop

>> No.2810102

>>2809931

My resting heart rate is 51 bpm, and I do lots of exercise. I have a strong heart.

>> No.2810137

>>2809904
/SCI/ PAY SOME FUCKING ATTENTION TO WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY BECAUSE IT WILL PUT AN END TO THESE RETARDED THREADS FOREVER.

If we only used 20% of our brain then I should be able to remove 80% of it and you should still be ok. FUCKING WRONG, you use 100% of your brain, you would die if you lost part of it.

End of discussion, no debate, period

/thread/

>> No.2810138

>>2810025
So if we aren't in control of it, it isn't in use?

Weird, I'm not regulating my digestion manually, so it must not be digesting at all. Wonder how I've survived all these years...

>> No.2810157

>>2810137
Depends on which part you lost. As long as you don't lose your brain stem, you can at least still breathe and maintain a heartbeat.

>> No.2810169

>>2810040
EVERYONE READ THIS ANALOGY

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>>2810102
But if your heart functioned at 100% all the time maybe eventually you could cum with the force of a thousand suns.

>> No.2810160

How the fuck did this myth ever come into existance? It's actually pissing me off.

>> No.2810178

>>2810137
>you would die if you lost part of it.
Well, you would die if you lost 80% of your brain matter, but there is a fair bit of redundancy, allowing you to survive minor brain damage.

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>>2810102
>heartman can beat at 300 BPm and isn't afraid of anything.

>> No.2810191

BPM*

>> No.2810198

>>2810040
This. If some things are inactive, they're inactive for a reason. Brains can probably be optimized, but this wouldn't involve just flipping some on/off switches on brain cells.

>> No.2810201

>>2810040

And become a supercomputer? I have a friend who has a computer cooled by liquid nitrogen because he overclocks it. Is that what overclocking is?

>> No.2810211

>>2810189

Obviously it couldn't beat at 300, as it would collapse or give out of give me a heart attack. But I mean it could take the stress of my brain activity.

>> No.2810252

100% BRAIN FUNCTION.

good luck controlling/regulating all of your body functions faggots. and if you think they do it on there own your quite stupid.

>> No.2810410

>>2810201
Overclocking is increasing the number of operations the circuit makes per second. Individual components of the circuit are only activated when they're needed, it just happens more frequently. This still results in more electric current flowing through the circuit, which generates more heat.

If all components were activated whether they're needed or not, the computer wouldn't be able to make any sensible operations. It wouldn't "work" even though everything would be active and consuming power.

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2810437

>100% brain usage
>implying that all neurons must be active constantly
>implying not a seizure

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2810467

>/sci/ getting trolled hard
>this board still fails to recognize a troll
>mfw

>> No.2810486

>>2810410

No, the more processes it uses, the faster it goes. It's "utilising it's potential".

>> No.2810584

It turns out though, that we use virtually every part of the brain, and that [most of] the brain is active almost all the time," Gordon adds. "Let's put it this way: the brain represents three percent of the body's weight and uses 20 percent of the body's energy."