The claim that we use only 10% of our brain capacity is a well-known myth. But if we actually use considerably more than 10%, is it possible to get close to maximum capacity? In other words: Is there a point where I have to say, “If I want to lean a new fact, I have to forget an old one to make room for it”?
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This stems from the old computer-brain analogy, which really makes this confusion understandable.
“we only use 10% if our brain” is not remotely close to “your storage device is 10% full”. The 10% brain capacity myth is originally about how much data are we processing at any one time compared to how much data could the Brain POTENTIALLY process if all parts of it was working at the same time. This is closer to a processor’s max capacity than a hard drive. Memory is different, there is so far no known max capacity for memory, and there is no real way to measure this.
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