Your Brain May Have Amazing Powers

I've never given much credence to the "only use 10% of our brains" urban legend, but this article, Savant for a Day, is making me reconsider. I'd like to see controlled, double-blind studies, but Snyder's machine already sounds very interesting -- hey, anyone can learn to draw, but I want to flip a switch to put my brain into calculator mode. EM-brain experimentation has taken off since Michael Persinger's work and other recent research.

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Now if they only had a switch...

[aznxk3vi17]

...to make everybody else stop using their 10%, thus giving you the edge you need to succeed in life.

Re:Now if they only had a switch...

[Heartz]

that could get me a life and a girlfriend....

God dammit - I must stop reading Slashdot!

This is from the NY Times?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmm, do they use these wondrous brain powers to make up stories? Is that how they do it?

Newsflash!

[Anonymous Coward]

The USB forum has named the two kinds of brain power 'Full Brain Power' and 'High-speed Brain Power'. Both are now collectively known as Brain Power 2.0.

I bet

[handsolo]

if your brain was in calculator mode you would find like 40000 variations of "BOOBLESS"

Download to brain

[dfn5]

but I want to flip a switch to put my brain into calculator mode.

I would rather get on my cell phone and say "Tank, I need a pilot program for a V-212 helicopter."

Re:Screw that

[garyok]

In my own experience I remember a migraine I had come on at work and it transformed me into a savant (of sorts) by giving me a mini Tourette's episode. I couldn't actually tell my colleagues in so many words why I was being a bit odd (apparently muttering "motherfucker" every third word is normal for me when I'm working on something tricky - who knew?) but I developed an amazing ability to communicate my predicament by pointing at my head, grimacing, and saying "shit motherfucker gnnn!"

Who knew that talent lay latent within me, just waiting for its release through the method of blinding and nauseating pain?