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What would happen if we could use 100% of our brain? Fabian van den Berg Neuroscientist and Psychologist (and I can't turn it off!) 51w ago As should be evident by now, “using” 100% of our brain isn’t some hypothetical, all of our brain is already being used. If it wasn’t then it would quickly disappear, since brains strive for efficiency and unused parts would get in the way. All that is between your ears, all of that white and gray matter is being used, just not all at once, that would be a grand mal seizure and you would most likely die after a short while. These pictures aren’t what you think you are. The areas lit up aren’t the only active areas, the dark parts aren’t “inactive” in any way. These images show you the difference between condition A and condition B. In both condition the whole brain is showing some kind of activity, comparing them will cancel out any activity that it the same and only leave the activity that has changed together with whatever changed between condition A and B. As for regulation of that 100% of the brain, that different. That’s basically saying, what if we could consciously control all the functions and activity in our brain. Which sounds amazing, wonderful, super-powerful, and completely and utterly…..fatal. You don’t want to be aware and in control of all that goes on and you can’t handle being in control of everything. Quick example, we breath automatically but we also evolved the ability to consciously control our breathing. It comes in handy in situation where breathing might be dangerous or not possible, also helps us swim. As humans we are also rather OK with not breathing for a limited time, we have some reserves to keep the body going. Now change that to your heartbeat. You are now in control of your heart, go on give it a try. Heart goes haywire, heart stops, organisms dies. What about more complicated things, vision or hearing? You really want to regulate the entire visual process from photon all the way to a scenery. Decomposing and recomposing your vision into it’s base elements, analyzing those elements via two pathways to extract all the information? You’d be exhausted 1 minute after opening up your eyes. Same goes for hearing, or any of the other senses. What about the circadian rhythm? That’ll kill you too if you mess it up, gotta keep that sine wave going. Fight or flight responses? reflexes? Motor control and planning? Facial recognition? Speech comprehension and production? Our brains do and regulate so much in our bodies, the sheer amount would overwhelm you, and the addition of decision making that comes with conscious regulation would inevitably lead to death, sooner rather than later. Mayank Gautam lives in Constructed Reality (1996-present) 2d ago If it happens, your body will get so deprived of the fuel that run it, that it would lead to survival crisis!! Let me clarify you, it's a fact that you certainly uses entire brain over a period of time, but not at once. It's the survival instinct of our body which shuts down the part of the brain which is not related to received stimuli from the external environment to curb down the metabolism rate of the body. So, if one day you get any drug (like CPH4 in the movie Lucy) and your 100 percent brain functions activates at a same period, your brain will require so much blood circulation that will deprive all other organs of the body. It would certainly require so much of energy to run at this phenomenal capacity, that your body require food all the time,and you will feel munchies . Isn't it? So, it would be impossible for your body to handle that brain. That's why, the evolution process of our body reaches to a certain point,we are living today, where you can use use any function of the brain but can't at same time. Now it's time see if it happens(but that could be reality also,may one day) - You can see every action of your life as a holographic event out of many possibilities that could happen on first place. You will calculate the minor perturbarions and their possible result with accuracy. Causal events prediction can help you to see in future. You can act upon situation before it actually happen. You can see both the good and bad in the event at same time. So, you will become less judgemental. Negative emotions vanishes-because every misunderstanding leads to anger,hate, jealousy….but if you can sense the point of view of another person and you can see the situation as a third person,then you would not be angry on another person.It means you get a level of mind reading. Caution: The article you are going to read can bend your brain As you all know that what we perceive as reality of outside world invokes the neural connections in the brain , but in limited ways. If you can use 100 percent brain , it means any neuron can intact with any neuron at a distinct part of the brain. It means every neuron is free to make random neural connection. So, you eat food with creativity, hammer the nail on the wall with a pleasure of sexuality, read the book loosing yourself to the fantasy world, walking on the road with countless emotions and endless possibilities that could happen, which will change your outlook for the world forever!! You will never feel depression as everything feels amazing….phenomenal thinking capacity can breaks the preprogrammed notions that you had acquired since childhood…. Any neuron can latch with any other distinct neuron. So, in that case, you would feel the sense of complete knowing. In simple world your subjective world would never be the same. World is not what you perceive from external stimulus, it is what you subjectively perceive from your limited brain capacity. And there are two possible scenarios then, CASE 1-You could be labelled as “ Mad” because you are incomprehensible to the normal person…. CASE 2- You could be labelled as “God” because you are talking about something incomprehensible…. Anup Das Writing science blogs for 3+ years and a science lover 12h ago Scientists have been researching for decades to vouch for the percentage of brains, we humans are really able to use. But for a long time we have been hearing a myth that that on average humans only use 10% of there brain. The origin of this myth that humans are only able to use 10% of their brain took from some prevalent theories from the 19th century. And since then it has become a hot topic for some of the science fictions without any scientific credibility. This myth took speed with a common belief that percentage of the brain used by the great scientist Albert Einstein was 13% which is just 3% more utilization than the normal human. He did many amazing scientific discoveries and people thought that if we were able to use 100% of our brains than that would bring wonders to this world. Is there any truth in this myth? The belief that we are only able to use 10% of our brains is half truth and half a lie. The only truth to this 10% myth is that our brain consists of 10% neurons which help us in processing and transmitting information while the remaining 90% is made of glial cells which act as a support system for the neurons and provides insulation to them. So, as we can see we are already using our 100% of our brains but it does not work on a single activity, different parts of our brain focuses on different tasks which are necessary for our survival. Our brain comprises 3% of the total body weight but still, it utilises 20% of the total energy of the body. If it had to work actively for a single problem then it will require so much blood circulation that the other organs would be deprived of it making it impossible for the body to control the brain leading to a survival crisis. The most part of the brain is busy controlling all the different kind of processes in the body. I think this example will help you much more to understand how brain function. Suppose you are watching a video. At the time of you watching a video your brain performs many other functions for the body such as keeping your lungs breathing, maintaining your heartbeat, helping your eyes to see the video or helping your food to digest your food, so scientific studies have concluded that maybe only 10% of your brain would be focusing on seeing that video while the remaining 90% will be busy in performing other basic processes of your body. So is there no way we can unlock our full brain hidden potential? Technically speaking it is not possible to use 100% of our brain for a single activity. But there is a fact that the way we increase our strength by muscular training similarly there are ways we can unlock or just use a higher percentage of our brains. The capabilities of your brain can be expanded by maintaining your health and challenging yourself to new things. Certain steps to try unlock a larger part of your brains are : Stimulate your brain: Spending some time with nature, this helps you stimulate your brain and even improves cognitive function. Try hard things: Scientists have found out that engaging your brain in some particularly hard and rigorous games or read a hard book which provides some new vocabulary as this helps you improve your fluid intelligence. Try new things: As soon as you master at one task you should start the one, the reason being simple i.e. once your brain becomes efficient it stops trying new possibilities for a problem, so you should always be trying new things. Take naps: It has been found out that small naps can boost your cognition, that helps you improve your brain function. Healthy Routine: A healthy balanced diet, full night’s sleep, avoiding the use of tobacco these are also certain factors which help in increasing the power of the brain. Hope this helps, to answer this question I take help from this article[1]. You should consider checking that article, I’m sure you will love that. Footnotes Leonardo Michelini 26w ago What could a person using 100% of their brain do? Fly? Infiltrate computers systems? Uncover the deep truths of the universe? No, they could seize, and that’s about it. A person with a 100% activated brain would shake uncontrollably and become unable to maintain consciousness. This is a recurrent question on the internet because, from a surface level perspective, it seems weird that the brain is normally not being “fully utilized.” However, the idea that more activation equals more brain power is ultimately a misunderstanding of how biological and information processing systems work. One thing to keep in mind is that the brain synapses are actually firing at all different locations of the brain at every second. No spot ceases activity unless there is severe damage. Neuroimaging techniques (such as MRI, PET, etc.) do not give this impression because they generate a picture based on different criteria stemming from complex statistical methods. The colored areas in a picture represent, depending on the method, blood-oxygen levels, radioactive sugar concentration, and many other things—none of them being simple “activation.” But, in general, blank areas on a computer-generated image are not inert in real life. Moreover, the brain is heavily specialized: each different part of it serves some specific functions. This means that it simply would not make sense for the brain to fire rapidly all over when no situation would ever require all of its functions at once. For example, if you focus your attention on a motor-task (e.g. playing videogames), the areas of your brain that specialize in this function (in this case, the motor cortex, cerebellum, and basal ganglia) will become more excited than the rest. Diverting your brain’s precious resources to your social cognition areas would simply be a waste when you are trying to make those difficult jumps in the new Mario game. I think it helps to think about this problem by comparing the brain to a computer. Your computer stores files with binary codes—sequences of 1s and 0s. If you considered the 1 state as “activation”, this would lead you to consider more 1s as “more activation”, and thus more 1s would be better… right? Wrong. If you altered all the 0s in your computer’s code to 1s, it would simply crash and be ruined beyond repair. Both the 1s and the 0s are required for information to be stored, for the programs to work, and for your computer to function. Likewise, pure excitation in the brain is absolute chaos. The organ creates order by carefully balancing activation and inhibition. Hope this helps. Pragya Bio-technologist 124w ago Well 10% brain use is a myth as Neurologist Barry Gordon said the myth is false and "we use virtually every part of the brain, and that (most of) the brain is active almost all the time. He also gave evidences for this: 1. If we used only 10% of our brains we'd have evolved with brains with much smaller in size as the brain is the most costly organ in terms of nutrients and oxygen. So if we had small brains it would have been more beneficial as our bodies would have to provide for a much smaller brain. ( 20% of the body's energy is used by brain). Hence, 10% theory have both survival and evolutionary disadvantage. 2. Now, if 90% of brain area is unused then any brain damage should not have any effect on the body but that doesn't happen.Even slight damage to small areas of the brain can have profound effects. 3. Brain scans have shown that no matter what one is doing, all brain areas are always active. 4.Decades of research have gone into mapping functions onto areas of the brain, and no function-less areas have been found. 5. PET scan and MRI scans have revealed that our brain is active even when we are sleeping. 6.Brain cells that are not used have a tendency to degenerate. Hence if 90 percent of the brain were inactive, autopsy of normal adult brains would reveal large-scale degeneration. But why this myth continues is somehow, somewhere, someone started this myth and the popular media keep on repaeating this myth and then everyone believes the statement regardless of the evidence. So for the question that what will happen one used their 100% of the brain: it will be normal, and if a person is not able to use their 100% of the brain, it can be a sign of brain damage and can be fatal. Zack Freedman studied at Stevens Institute of Technology 26w ago It’s kind of a ridiculous question, because your brain cells are always doing something. Most of it is trivial stuff like regulating bodily functions, generating neurotransmitters, coordinating muscles, and interpreting your senses. Other stuff is higher-level but mundane, like forming memories, discarding irrelevant sensory information, observing your mental and bodily state, and converting thoughts to and from language. It’s more interesting to consider individual cases of “maxing out” a function. Here are some common ones. You are aware of 100% of your senses. You simultaneously feel every touch on your entire body, get an unfiltered visual field, and are attentive to every sound, smell, and taste. You can feel every point your clothing touches your skin and every breeze on every hair. You can taste your own bad breath and the plaque on your teeth. Humming electrical wires and distant cars constantly interrupt you. Since you’re getting an unfiltered visual field, you can no longer recognize people or track moving objects; because your brain no longer reorients your view, everything flips upside-down. Bright colors are almost painful, and looking around causes a disorienting visual smear. Your inner ear constantly tells you that you’re off-balance. It’s impossible to tell what’s going on. You could be hit by a car while distracted by the feeling of air going into your nose. You can’t walk because of the huge amount of information produced as your body shifts. You’re probably experiencing something similar to severe autism, with even the tiniest touch or smell totally consuming your thoughts. Your brain needs to discard most of what you sense because most of the information is irrelevant or distracting. You can access 100% of your memories. With a thought, you can access every experience relating to it. You can immediately summon every memory of any object and replay your life in chronological order. Except you can’t. You think about that time you tried coffee for the first time, and all you can recall is that it hurt. You remember your best friend’s face perfectly, but his body is an amorphous blob, and there’s no way he had acne when he was five. Reminiscing about college is physically painful because every memory is overlaid with oppressive, unceasing stress. You try to re-read a book and nearly all the pages are blank. On top of this, you find that your memory has gaps. Entire months are simply gone, with nothing at all. Your own wedding is a cloud of disjointed facts. Most of the memories are damaged, hastily redrawn with obvious inconsistencies. Earlier memories are more corruption than fact. Worst of all, every time you check back on a memory, it warps and decays, moving further from the truth. The issue is that you don’t memorize very much. Your brain memorizes some important or interesting details, and when you recall it, your brain backfills the rest with general details that are probably correct. Most events don’t get memorized at all - you keep them in memory for a short period, but they’re never archived for long-term recall. On top of this, recalling a memory destroys it, and your brain does a poor job of rewriting it afterwards. You have 100% control over your attention and behavior. You declare a plan and your body springs into action, working ceaselessly until the job is done. Every distraction is banished, and your entire thought process and working memory are devoted to the task at hand. You sequence your to-do list and completely empty the easy items in a couple of days. You launch into your work project, making massive progress until you abruptly faint because you forgot to eat for the last 18 hours. So you start adding regular checks to eat and sleep, and you mix some workouts in there. It’s trivial to stay healthy, because you have infinite willpower to eat and exercise. You tear through your work, devoting eight hours a day to uninterrupted focus with your full mental resources. Simple tasks are done almost as quickly as you can type, and you rarely forget things and never get lazy. Except you start making mistakes. There are factors you didn’t consider, but by the time you realize, you’ve already sunk another eight hours into it. You repeat bad habits because you didn’t take a gut-check. You plunge into dead-ends, deciding that your work was wasted as soon as you finish. You make strategic and political missteps, failing to factor them into your plans before you execute them. You start taking planning more seriously, and realize that there’s never enough information to be fully confident. You’ve wasted weeks and your confidence is broken. You adopt a lockstep strategy of making a short plan, executing it, evaluating it, and repeating. Now, your performance is consistent and well-informed, but your raw output is slower than before. You struggle to explain that you spent an hour researching and two hours working to determine the probability of a longer-term plan succeeding. Even though your work is of exceptional quality, you fall behind your coworkers on all of your boss’ metrics. When you discuss this with your boss, he fears that you’re after his job. You use 100% of your brain for sentient thought. You gain the ability to reassign any neuron to work towards your self-awareness and thoughts. The ability is supernatural, since you can even reassign memory-forming white matter into action-taking gray matter. You immediately realize that if you accidentally overwrite your autonomous nervous system, you’ll die. You’ll have only seconds to learn how to pump your heart before you asphyxiate, minutes to determine how to breathe, and days to control your endocrine system before hormonal problems destroy your organs. After some experimentation, you realize that this power causes significant trade-offs. Converting memories into mind destroys them, so if you grow smarter, you become more ignorant. You could overwrite some language or sensory processing, but you don’t know what point it will cause brain damage. Worst of all, you’ll soon be able to make yourself happy on demand. The constant struggle between bliss and reality tears you apart. You’re always aware of the fact that you’re less than you could be, but if you became fully sentient, it would mean trapping yourself in a dying body with no senses or memories. Basically, evolution has done a pretty decent job at optimizing the average person’s brain. There is some tuning to do, but on the whole, you’re already using 100% of your brain in a pretty practical configuration. Lucas Curtis Science teacher (2001-present) 57w ago We do. Although each part of the brain has a different function, every part is active at one point or another. There are no dormant regions in the brain just waiting to be activated to give you psychic powers or suchlike. Think about it like this: your brain is a fantastically expensive organ. By expensive, I mean that it takes a lot of energy to run the brain - up to 20% of the body’s energy is consumed by the brain. Now if 90% of the brain were simply sitting there, unused, then that would be a tremendous amount of energy spent on maintaining something that does nothing. Evolution would never permit that to happen, because an animal that spends a huge percentage of its body’s energy maintaining a useless structure is far from the fittest. Now you might ask: fine, fine, we use all of the brain…eventually. What would happen if all the neurons fired at once? You’d have a massive seizure. It wouldn’t be pleasant. Achmad Aulia Rachmadany 17 years old Electrical Engineering freshman. 16w ago If we force to use 100% of our brain, It would look like this: Seriously, the only situation that I know in which a person can “use” 100% brain utility (using every neuron connection at the same time) is during seizures. If someone know any other scenario, please tell me in the comments. It comes down to how our brain proccesses information. Our brain doesn’t work like most computer cpus. Most current generation cpus have cores that can do almost any task at a fix clock speed, basicaly every cpu cores is the same. Because of this universal versatility, you can utilize it to 100% cpu time utilization, in which every core is doing everything as fast as it can, to do the set of tasks you give to it. Because the ram channel bandwidth is very high. You have relatively little problem in task scheduling. For the brain, you can replace “cores” with a “nuclei” which is a cluster of neurons that does a specific task. our brain processes different kind of task/information in different part of the brain (cores), and there’s so many of them. Even every muscle that controls your fingers have its own “motor cores”(a network of neuron dedicated to control that finger). If a core is not receiving enough information, it will not utilize every neuron on that core. But, if it receive more information than it can handle, it will run in 100% utility, and ignore what it can’t process at the time (the data is lost). Now, theres this special bundle of cores, called the prefrontal cortex. Thats where you make conscious decisions based on the information coming from other brain area, although this part is physicaly relatively big compared to other cores, this core is easily overloaded because the task is so complex. Your standard IQ test mostly measures this cores performance. Edit: Some say that this brain region is where your consciousness reside, but it hasn’t been proven to be true or not, it is still an interesting controversial topic.(thanks to Kai Voges for the edit) For example, if you’re playing basketball and you have the ball while dribling towards your opponents ring. This is what happens in your brain: Your balance cores are busy determining where is your center of mass, your speed, your orientation, angle of attack while running, accelerations, tracking where your legs is (this information is fetched from “proprioception cores”), knowing the ground textures(fetched from visual cores), and a bunch of other stuff. Your visual cores are busy tracking the movements of the ball, separating the player from the background, judging distances, recognizing your team mates, knowing where line is, judging the speed/acceleration of other player, and many more. Your motor cores are busy determining which muscle strands to contract at what time to move a limb, how much power that goes in a movement, ect. This core’s relationship with the proprioception cores is vital. Proprioception cores “remember” where your limbs are so you don’t get trampled by your own legs. (Yes, stumbling for no reason is your proprioception failing to do its job) Your thalamus filters out unnecesary information that will otherwise make your brain utterly ineficient and slow because of overloading.(I have experienced it, its not very pleasant, theres a wikipedia page about it. “sensory overload”) Your audio cores are not so busy, it is waiting/looking for a command or audio communications from other players. By constantly analyzing every vibration in the air that sounds like a human voice, and half-ass processing other sounds. If it finds a human voice, it will conveniently articulate it back into words for you. Your olfactory (chemical sensor) cores aren’t doing much. There’s not enough relevant information from the environment. Its beneficial to actually do this, since your thalamus and your prefrontal cortex bandwidth are easily overloaded. Your somatosensory cores (skin sensors) is mainly analyzing pressure points all over your body, and relaying it to prefrontal cortex and the others. The prefrontal cortex (your consciousness) is very busy. Doing a lot of analyzing, strategy, predictions, risk managing, decision making, ect. by processing the information from all of the cores above. And then it tells the motor cores what to do. all of the cores above are intricately interconnected, and constantly interchanging informations which results in a massively pararel processing. So, because not all information is relevant to the situation, there’s always some cores that have nothing to do, for there is simply not enough useful information to process. But there’s more… The brain stores information in its structure of neural connections. If you fire a random neuron without a relevant stimuli, it will trigger memories/muscle memories that aren’t even related to the situation. Imagine you fire a neuron that triggers your bladder/urethra muscle memory to pee. Or your muscle memory to play a piano while you’re holding a guitar. Your finger will press the guitar strings like a piano key. Or some random sensation memory, like smelling an apple juice, or something. And then, imagine all… every muscle memory and mental/sensation memory that you have up until now being triggered. And now you are remembering and doing everything you know how to do. At the same time. Can you guess what would be the result? Yes, a realy bad total seizure… And no, you will not even be conscious if that happens. So, the reason the brain cannot functionally operate at 100% utility is: not every information is relevant to the situation, and there’s simply not enough useful information to process. (Not useful information will only cloud your judgment, you don’t want that) There’s allways some specialized cores that has nothing to do, because there’s not enough specialized kind of information for it to process. bottlenecks in some part of the brain. and it will make you do and feel everything you know at once. In other word, a very bad seizure. Sensory overload sucks P.s: I’m a new writer here. Please have some mercy, and suggest edits if you can, English is not my first language. Original siteon Quora Open Opera News to see comments Offline reading without Internet. Download 1000+ news in just 10 seconds. Report a problem default like dislike dislike COPY SUCCESS