Not only using 10% of the brain, humans are using this part with how much capacity?

The world's science and technology is developing very fast. Humans have begun to explore to the core of the Earth, or go to the South Pole and the North Pole, even set foot on other planets in the universe. However, people's understanding of their bodies is still not really deep enough. According to scientists, the brain is the most mysterious part of the human body that needs to be discovered. Why do they claim that?

According to scientists, the brain is the most mysterious part of the human body. (Photo: Baidu)

Can humans use more than 10% of their brains?

The brain is one of the most complex and potentially developmental organs in the human body. According to research by Jean Pierre Flourens, the scientist who invented the anesthetic and who also proved that the brain is still conscious for a short time when the heart stops beating, humans only use 10% of the capacity of the brain. brain.

However, there are still many people who think that Jean Pierre Florens' conception is wrong. If humans only used 10% of our brains, we would be just like animals. And even if people use more than the capacity of the brain, there will be more supernatural abilities. So are the people who are recognized by experts as having the "strongest" brains in the world who have used up the remaining 90% of their brains?

There are many opinions that if people use 100% of their brains, they will become superhumans.

In China, there was once a TV program called "Super Brain" (English name: Super Brain) that gathered players with top intelligence and breathtaking confrontations. Among the participants, Trinh Thien Tai was a character who surprised everyone with his extraordinary ability.

In just 2 hours, Trinh Thien Tai can memorize the contents of a book with thousands of characters. Trinh Thien Tai's memory ability is so good that he has been blacklisted by casinos. Rumor has it that Trinh Thien Tai tried to use his superhuman memory to win hundreds of millions in just 10 minutes.

Or like Dominic O'Brien, a British memory expert who has been called the world's best memory. He has won 8 times in a row the world memory championship competition in 10 years. Dominic O'Brien has broken the limit of remembering the order of 6 decks. In 2002, he continued to enter the Guinness Book of World Records when he remembered the random order of 52 decks (equivalent to 2,808 cards) after looking at their order only once. He later wrote a book on skills to increase memory and was a speaker on the benefits of memory enhancement for life and brain development.

Many geniuses have super memory because they practice for many years, not because they use more than 10% of the capacity of the brain.

However, unlike what we think, these geniuses do not completely use more than 10% of the brain's capacity. In fact, their extraordinary ability to remember comes from practice. Dominic O'Brien said that as a child he had severe attention problems and often had trouble listening to what others had to say. By chance, in 1987, O'Brien watched a TV show about a man who demonstrated an ability to remember. Since then, he began to practice in his own way and developed the ability to memorize over the years and achieved success.

Thus, it can be seen that people who have the strongest brain in the world are not due to use up 90% of their brain capacity. So how much % of our brain are we using?

The myth that 10% of the brain is "overthrowed"

In fact, the myth of 10% of the brain has been "overturned" in a study published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Experts used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure activity in a person's brain while performing various tasks. According to the results, the researchers found that most of our brains are using most of their capacity, even when performing a simple activity. We can also understand that every region of the brain performs a certain function.

Experts used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure activity in a person's brain while performing various actions.

The rate of brain usage varies from person to person. This percentage also depends on what the person is doing. Many brains remain active even when the person is resting or sleeping.

Moreover, the human brain makes up 1/40th of the body's mass but consumes 1/5th of the calories needed to feed the body. Therefore, a brain that uses up to 20% of the body's energy but only works at 10% efficiency is indeed unreasonable.

According to a study by the University of Washington, if humans remove 90% of their brains, the remaining size is only equivalent to 1 sheep brain. And obviously, the sheep brain isn't that big, but it's fully functional for it to survive.

If a person's brain has a small lesion, it can affect that person's function.

Besides, we all know that even a small injury to the brain can cause human functions to be affected. Injury can cause people to have neurological impairment, paralysis or stroke. If the brain loses 90%, it also means that people lose the ability to think, remember, learn or communicate. Not only that, we will have many difficulties in moving and moving. Even those who cannot adapt to the sheep's way of life can be in danger of life.