Myth of the 10% Brain Capacity Use and the Development of Future Humanity
The first and last thing to understand to free oneself from a mental flatland is that everything humanity has been is universal, as are all the knowledge, truths and values, even those we have not yet found with our cognition. All the minds, all the great figures in history, all the civilizations build, are dependent on neurological configurations, produced by brains not too different from ours. The only thing separating ourselves from others are the experiences we gain separately in different points of time, the combination of neurons that actively produce what we call as the natural reality, what we have been conditioned to know, and in neurological level, it is all human. The myth of humans using only some percentages of their capacity diminishes in relativity with the potential capacity we in fact have. The reason for why the whole capacity in our brains is not always active is due to the fact that when you’re sitting down, you don’t need the capacity to be active for walking. For if our brains did so, if you wanted to sit down, the conflict between two separate combinations would make that impossible, and therefore we are talking about an impossible scenario. The other thing that this myth tells is that there would be collections of neurons we never use, they would never activate, but because of the interrelations in our neurological design, such a waste is simply not part of our program. In potential level, we are still talking numbers which smallness is impossible to calculate in our current state of development.
Now, if we had for example technology that could impose every frequency our senses send to our brains, we would be able to produce every human experience, every human memory, including your whole lifetime. Our brains are able, in combination, produce all the knowledge that has been produced and will be produced, and thus all we need is one pair of brains to produce all the civilizations, and their memories, but only, if we had the combinatory capacity to keep them. Then, recent studies show that it takes only five days to form a new habit and from forty to sixty days to accustom it. Think of it this way, the more you stimulate what is required for the new habit, the more accustomed you make of it. The old pathways never seize to exist, but the less they are used, the less they are dominating. Hence this is our inner child, the connections we made when were still children, and they are never erased from us, although as we activate them, the combinations might be different and thus we produce false memories.
Our neurological design is bound to produce information driven continuums, and creating new continuums is the process of starting a new continuum that increases in complexity and in content, or simply causes information driven behavior. The brains are dynamic, there is no invariant awareness or invariant content in consciousness and memories, as everything changes. How many new meanings can you give to your past experiences? And if they differ from time to time, which one of them is the authentic one? How do you recognize it amongst hundreds of new interpretations? What you’re now, seizes to exist in a nanosecond, as everything in the cosmos, and gains a new combinatory form. The kingdoms of the past are gone, and the people who shared the Earth together, the reality in Earth are long since gone, and we share this same fate. This is the world as we have made of it, this is the form that the information driven continuums of the past have mold it in all its power structures and legacies of wealth, and only thing to end oppression is to change the representational world.
Henry M. Piironen is a contemporary European philosopher of consciousness, cultures, and reality. His main focuses are in the ethical development and in the creation of cross-cultural awareness of globally dominant major religions between the merging cultures of the 21st century age of information exchange. To purchase his latest books, visit barnesandnoble.com