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by TheGreatOne on September 19th, 2006

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I heard in a Science class once that a human only uses a small ammount of his brain power. Therefore if a human was ever to use his full 100% brain power he could actually move things with his mind without physically touching them. Is this true?

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  • by Im Alec has abandoned this account on September 19th, 2006

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    I think it is a fallacy that humans only use a small amount of thair brainpower - usually quoted as 10%.

    Einstein said it, but Einstein was a physicist, not a neurologist or a psychologist. I think he merely meant that he didn't consider that he was intrinsically much cleverer than everybody else but that he worked harder. He was saying that if other people worked as hard as he did, they might do nearly as well as he did. Possibly true - other people work at other things, and as Edison said, genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

    But the idea that we can move things without brains, however much more powerful we make them, has no scientific evidence. We could, not doubt, think either faster or deeper, or both. We could use our cleverness to build machines to move things (we already do) or use our cleverness to get other people to move things (we already do). But moving things by direct brainpower is pure imagination.

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  • by azxten on April 23rd, 2009

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    This is hilarious. We use all of our brains and this is nothing more than a myth. Also, it isn't Einstein who said this the saying was, "The average human only uses 10% of their brain, Einstein used X% though."

    This is 100% fake. We use all of our brain. Also, where does the jump take place where we can move objects with our minds just because were using more of our brains? Again, complete nonsense.

    I suggest you drop out of that science course.

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  • by ItsJustDon on September 19th, 2006

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    Although it would be cool, there is no scientific evidence that any claim of a person to have an ability to move things with ones' mind (psychokinesis) has merit. There is even a group that has set up a "One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge" in which they will pay $1,000,000 to anybody that can show, under laboratory conditions, an ability to perform any paranormal ability, including psychokinesis. (You can see their website here: http://www.randi.org/research/index.html )

    It seems more than a little doubtful that somebody who had *truly* developed this ability would be content to just let the $1,000,000 in free money just sit around unclaimed.

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  • by Ullyses on September 19th, 2006

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    He doesn't even need to use 100%. The average person uses around 10% of their brainpower, and some people manage to get as much as 25% out of themselves. Trained phychics, use a little more than that, and some of them, under CIA conditions, have been able to 'remote find' objects. There's a scary world out there.

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  • by RondoRedux on January 25th, 2010

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    Ever watch "Matrix"? The entire Matrix ran off the collective energy of countless numbers of human brains.

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