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From: sandip@oddjob.UUCP (Sandip Chakra)
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Re: darwinism
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Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 21:05:30 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 29 21:05:30 1985
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> I don't know about the % of gray matter "normally" used, but one
> installment of either the PBS series "The Mind" or another Nova
> program provided the following startling findings:
> 
> Using recently developed (tomographic?) techniques for scanning
> the brain in detail along various physical variables, researchers
> found that a number of people who suffered massive brain damage
> at birth or early in life but who display not only above average
> abilities but high general intelligence (unlike the "calculating
> idiots") are using less than 10%, in some cases less than 5%,
> of their brain mass: the rest is clinically or effectively dead!

	In my original article I used exactly this example. The
PBS series was not on "The Mind" but on "The Brain". 





					Sandip Chakra



 


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