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Your Brain May Have Amazing Powers

Posted by jamie on from the uptake dept.

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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  1. One flaw in your theory by Angry+White+Guy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Trailer Parks.

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    You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
    1. Re:One flaw in your theory by drwho · · Score: 1, Offtopic
      trailer parks

      Why is it so common to refer to people who live in trailer parks as stupid and poor? How about if I said 'slums'? Why is it okay to pick on rural white poor as being stupid and inbred, but not inner city minorities?

      No, I don't live in a trailer park. I live in the city. Yes, I have seen the rural misery of some of these places. On the other hand, trailer parks provide a cheap way of having a house and also moving it when you want. It is economically efficient. And it doesn't cost the taxpayer money the way so-called Public Housing does.