The percentage of brain function

By what percentage does the brain work?

We have all heard about the various figures such as 5 or 10%, which the ancient Greeks complained that they could not use their brains "to the full." Is this true or not, let's see.

Power of the brain

Every second, our brain produces a variety of operations, this number is very difficult to calculate, if we take into account such simple things as exactly sit, keep your head, listen, see, feel, and many, many others. You just can not imagine how many simultaneous processes involved. It provides for the exchange of information between the 100 billion neurons, each of which has about 10,000 synaptic connections with other neurons and 1 second is capable of transmitting about 10 pulses per this link. Try to count the humanists contend)

However, the vast majority of these operations, we do not notice because of getting used to, but it does not mean that they do not work! To fully enjoy some of them, count how many times you do breaths / breaths, his eyes blink in a minute. Even banal movement scratched his head, giving the team a hand, not a leg, sets the optimal speed hands, so you will not have received the award for the most ridiculous death, and so on. Why can not we multiply huge numbers at each other? For us it is not so important to learn how to scratch his head, very simplistic.

There is also a hypothesis that the brain can not simultaneously perform a variety of activities, and consistently, but with incredible speed.

The brain is always working at full

MRI is Magnetic Resonance Imaging. It is usually applied in order to identify diseases, tumors, in general - for the treatment and prevention of brain. MTP and also shows the most active areas of the brain at any given moment.

MRI shows that the brain is always running and all. It differs only certain areas of activity. When you sleep, the brain operates in a simplified mode, as compared to wakefulness. All functions are reduced to a minimum, in fact, we need only to drive to breathe and blood, even the metabolism, digestion, everything slows down. During sleep, growth hormone is produced in 5 times more, and who is all this headed? When you look at the big picture and want to remember, the brain involved more than, for example, in the game of chess. It's amazing is not it? It would seem that the opposite is true. Chess players understand that sometimes you need a very long time to think about the course and look at 10 steps ahead, so why the brain is involved is less than the banal memorizing pictures?

Yes, simply because in the game of chess, there are frames, limited the rules of the game, a limited field, and you have to play by the rules. You are focused on logic and forecasting + you keep in mind the rules.

Now let's see how you remember the picture. The spatial orientation of the individual elements, the colors, the shape of these elements, the nature of this image, the general perception (like it or not) - it's just the time of viewing. Remember, too, it can be a variety of ways, including logic, when you argue, "So, well, this is a picture of nature, on top of the sky, green trees, stones ...". Then, when you will remember it, will have the same sequence: "I think there were some trees and beautiful clouds", and then reconnect the brain and imagination on the basis of logic, "Well, if this is a picture of nature, perhaps there was also a green grass, as was clearly the summer. "

Thus, considering the picture, you turn to the work of more neurons in your brain than in chess. Why do you play chess harder? Because the image you see and the brain is constantly trained on them from birth, as with chess meet only in part, neuronal connections are weak. It turns into a chess work hard, only one part of the brain that is less physically those areas that work at memorizing pictures. Try to go backwards, and the brain would be stunned from this behavior and you will get tired a lot quicker. The brain will tell you through stressful neurotransmitters, supposedly "fasten, you look like a asshole, you fall, and so on."

Another proof that will appeal to fans of the theory of evolution! Why do we have such a large brain, if it works only on 2, 6, 10, 15 percent (unnecessary delete). And indeed, I ask what for? If this were indeed the case, it would diminish over time. But what happens? It increased, according to the conclusion of Japanese biologists K. Takahasi and I. Sudzuki: "over the past 60-70 years, the successful economic development of the average weight of the brain of the Japanese increased by 30 grams in men and 15 grams in women.

So, summing up the brief: the brain works completely full, but at different times and in solving different problems has a different activity. Imagine the Internet in the region at 20: 00-22: 00 is the peak number of visits to its people. This does not mean that he does not work at night or in the morning

The brain has great potential!

Here's what you wanted to hear) From the preceding paragraph it appears that the brain is almost always to the fullest, in ordinary life, we just do not notice it. And with regard to, how much we use of the brain, is clever to say that "We do not use 10% of the brain, and is closer to 100%, but we are able to increase the efficiency of of the brain is ten times!". Why?

Neural connections! For this is the future. Neural connections - this is your mind, memory, attention, imagination, logic, even the coordination of movements! From birth, we have created a lot of connections between neurons, is a kind of sequence that teaches us. As children, we will fill his bumps, but are trained life. And adults, we constantly use these bonds, "not to run across the road, take care of health and so on," we have to build a logical chain, why we think this is the neural connections.

Why do we need the integral? (Question for the humanities) What are the consequences of sudden inflation? (Question to the techies). We are all faced with these words, but does not remember them, we just know about them. We do not have appropriate neural connections, or they are very weak. You to walk easily? Strong communication - trained from birth. Imagine what would have happened to you, train you knowledge of mathematics or economics from birth? Geniuses, but who want to work).

What if 10 times to accelerate the formation of neuronal connections? Yes, this requires additional energy is energy. And what if slow "forgetting" 10 times, ie weakening of neural connections? More energy. But the training will take place 10 times faster 1 class in the school for 10. WARNING! Already there are drugs that are capable of it, to tell the scientific - drugs that increase of NGF, for example - Cerebrolysin, there is an effect in animals from substances Idebenone, Noopept, Semax, Sunifiram, Idra-21 - but about the consequences as yet are unknown.

A few words about this concept as the "deja vu". This is when you experience the feeling that has been in the "it" place, with these people, etc, in short, almost an exact repeat of past events. This is the most "awakening dormant" neural connections + a bit of imagination. You could have a dream that you have long forgotten, but that happens the situation is very similar. When neurons are found matching on the visual, auditory, sensory characteristics of other neurons, but these ties are weak and you can just feel the expense of neurotransmitters that "somewhere it was already."

Bottom line:

• 1.The brain works completely full (if you are healthy), but there is a huge scope for action in terms of increasing its productivity.
• 2.The brain has enormous potential ahead of an exciting future.
• 3.The less we use something - the faster we have forgotten how to do it.
• 4.When living conditions, the brain uses more neurons than in the game, the rules are strictly limited, for example, chess.

Increase efficiency of brain, study. Remember that knowledge to recover much easier - than to create new ones, so do not be afraid to loosen the old neural connections.