Distortion

I know some of your fried measly little minds won't understand where I'm coming from, but listen in friends.
The average human being uses just 8% of it's brainpower. In comparison, a dolphin uses 100% of it's brainpower, and lives a life filled with peace and harmony. They are a very intelligent species, and who's to say we wouldn't live in harmony if we used the total capacity of our brain. Why is it we are the only species unable to use our brain to it's fullness. Well, that's where my afterlife theory comes.
Our mind tells us we exist, and technically, we could transport our minds outside our bodies, or even into another body, and retain the same information. In essence, our mind and soul are permanent, our bodies perishable. But to what extent is our brain immortal, afterall it rots away to ashes along with the rest of our body.
To put it in laments terms, my theory is that when we die, our brain uses it's full capacity to keep us living, at least in our minds. We are a witness to our future generations, and can only ponder when we will be issued a new life to live in this world. So in essence, this is the afterlife. And then comes judgement day. A meeting of the souls and minds, we meet our maker. He judges us on how we've lived our life, and treated others. If we're granted access to the next world...be it heaven, or whatever, we are approved of and continue on with the journey of our mind and soul . If not, we're sent back to this Earth. hahaha Give your thoughts please.

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PhreshwaterPhunk

I would like to start my rebuttal by saying that it is very ignorant of you to call a large group of people ignorant. Although there is a good deal of ignorance on the Marijuana.com boards, they come and go, but there is a far greater amount of mature, intellectual smokers on the boards, and I'm sure they don't appreciate being called ignorant.

I can agree with you in the sense that we do not use a very large majority of our brainpower. But why? Why are we the only species that doesn't? It's because it atrophies. Babies are born with a lot more braincells than fully grown adults, the reason for this is because the majority of people do not reguarly excersise all parts of their brains, and the excess is left to atrophy. You can compare it to excersising the muscles of the body, if you leave a muscle unexcersised, it will wilt and become very weak. The brain is a muscle, and we don't excersise it before it becomes too weak. The reason small children can learn new languages so quickly is because their brains are fresh. Adults have a VERY difficult time learning new things, and aren't used to excersising those parts of the brain. This is why humans do not use all of their brain power, I don't think it has anything to do with an afterlife. It is because humans are the most intelligent animals, and if not due to all the materialistic posessions that make relying on instinct unnecessary, we would use all 100% of our brain power.

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MorrisonHotel

First a small correction, the average brain use is 10%. In response to the ignorancy comment, it is more true than not, everyone in the world is ignorant, but simply towards different things. For example- someone with an I.Q. of say 170 would be considered superior but an I.Q. test simply measures language and math skills for the most part, whereas someone with an I.Q. of say 80, would be considered below average but could build a car engine in less than 4 hours. Neither is dumber, they are just good at different things. As for the lack of use towards the rest of our brain, yeah, it's due to lack of use, why? Because with the technological advancements, we now have machinery to do a lot of our thinking for us. And as for our brain using 100% of it's capabilities to keep our mind alive after death, it is a very interesting theory considering research has shown that the brain continues to function 24 hours after the time of death. Kind of ironic considering the term "braindead". But as for this little bit of pondering, I think that there are to many answers, theorys, and uninformed discrepincies for even a forty page thread to give a slightly accurate depiction of why, or how.

PhreshwaterPhunk

Morrisonhotel just made me realize kind of what you meant. You mean to say that the afterlife is simply an illusion or dream dreamed up during the first 24 hours. Because it would feel like the afterlife if you were dreaming during that time, and it feel like forever.

LeXtasy420

Yea if you think about it, ur mind could make it seem like an eternity of the the imaginary world for that 24 hours....

Yankee

I think we dont use 100% of our brains for three possible reasons:

A) It would either require too much energy. This means would would need to eat 30 times a day instead of 3.

B) It is pointless to be using 100% of the brain when only an average of 10% is necessary.

C) Our cells cant take the heat created from the processing required to using 100% of our brains.

Cassius

All three of those explanations, if true, would preclude the possibility that we could ever have evolved such complex brains. If we can only use 10% of our brain power due to the heat that is released, then why would we ever have evolved the other 90% if it couldn't be used?

Evolution says that there can't be a "hardware" reason for not using it, or it wouldn't be there. It's more likely that at some point in our past we did use all of our brainpower, but that over time we stopped. Which means that we still can, we just have to train ourselves to do it.

What that training entails, I can't tell you, because I don't have it and don't know where to get it =). I don't use 100% of my brain either.

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Hiz Highness

How can I resist?

From http://www.csicop.org/si/9903/ten-percent-myth.html

Forgive all us idiots that didn't grasp your erroneous information.

Thanks,
-HH

StewScum

Nice Hiz. That does make more sense because why would i use the logical part of my brain when im eating an sandwhich i why would i use the part of the brain required for art when i'm doing math. If a human were to use 100 percent of his brain at one time, i would think that person would be completely and hopelessly confused. I also think, however, that there are parts of the brain that many people never have or never will access, that do eventually just wither away, such as the language part of the brain. There are also probably some parts of the brain that achieve a higher than normal level of thinking that people rarely use, George W. namely being one of them, but I'm sure people have awoken parts in their brain that others havn't. Strange stuff the brain.

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NeoArcadian

Damn that was not good.

Don't ever call a group of people you don't know ignorant. It pisses me off enough when normal people think stoners are in general stupid but when another stoner believes the same sterio-types it really pisses me off.

Anyway, thank god you said it Hiz Highness. It is true that we never use all of our brains a once but we do use all of our brains. We have different parts in our brain for different things, parts for gathering and storing memory. Parts for recognizing smells and tastes and feelings. Parts to move our bodies and do tons of other random things.

Of course we never use all of them at once, it would take tons of energy to do that.

But yeah, it is one thing to call stupid people ignorant, it is a complete other thing to call people ignorant when you yourself get your own information wrong. I am not flaming, I'm just saying if you're going to call people ignorant you really should make sure they won't be able to correct you.

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