[tophat9000]

Simple question.....have you ever heard we only use 10% of our brain?....how do you evolve something you don't use..

Darwinian evolution is based on the premise that minor errors may sometimes be a serious serendipitous advantage leading to reproductive success.

But you don't use something like this excess brain capacity it can't giving you any reproductive advantage

Even having 10% of your brain that you're not using would be illogical from a Darwinian evolutionary perspective let alone evolving 80% 90% of brain capacity never used

... so either this excess brain capacity human have is a myth or Darwinian evolution has some holes in it

[BrandtMichaels]

Dunno. But I have heard you use more of your brain when listening to music than any other activity.

So why wouldn’t writing and composing music require even more?

[meowmeow]

have you ever heard we only use 10% of our brain?....

Like many things we learned as kids because it was SCIENCE, this one proved to not be true, in this case, thanks to the advent of brain scans (okay - better science). Most of us use our whole brain, but not necessarily all at the same time.

Saw fascinating show on some health network where a young girl with seizures had half her brain removed. It stopped the seizures, but she obviously lost a lot of basic functionality. The fascinating part was that over time, she gained some functionality back as the brain adapted and rewired itself.

We are fearfully and wonderfully made!