Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site oddjob.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!pesnta!phri!timeinc!vax135!houxm!ihnp4!oddjob!sandip From: sandip@oddjob.UUCP (Sandip Chakra) Newsgroups: net.sci Subject: Re: darwinism Message-ID: <829@oddjob.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 21:05:30 EDT Article-I.D.: oddjob.829 Posted: Sat Jun 29 21:05:30 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 02:43:41 EDT References: <542@petsd.UUCP> <1477@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 27 > 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 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***