Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ccice2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!pesnta!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccice5!ccice2!bwm From: bwm@ccice2.UUCP (Brad Miller) Newsgroups: net.sci Subject: Re: darwinism Message-ID: <636@ccice2.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 16:01:43 EDT Article-I.D.: ccice2.636 Posted: Sat Jun 29 16:01:43 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 05:39:50 EDT References: <783@oddjob.UUCP> <34@escher.UUCP> <268@rti-sel.UUCP> Reply-To: bwm@ccice2.UUCP (Bradford W. Miller) Distribution: net Organization: CCI Central Engineering, Rochester, NY Lines: 12 I have viewed with much scepticism claims in this newsgroup that humans only use a %age of the brain. Given some specialization of the brain, I suspect that it is nonsense to make statements like so and so only used 15% of his brain to do X, unless X includes a lot of simultaneous actions, like eating, sex, pain from every neuron in the body, drawing a perspective picture, etc........ Certain tasks will use certain parts of the brain, not all of it at the same time. You don't expect a reasonable implementation of ackermans function to use a disk driver and X.25 link do you? Brad Miller -- ..[cbrma, ccivax, ccicpg, rayssd, ritcv, rlgvax, rochester]!ccice5!ccice2!bwm