Did the Aztecs/Egyptians use part of the brain in everyday thought that we no longer use due to our neglect?

Question

Of that part of the brain?

Answer 1

Uh, no.

We use all of our brain. Always have.

Answer 2

I thought your screen name was, " do not believe the hype? "

Answer 3

NO, if you could go back in time to when they built the first city's in Egypt about 5000 years ago and you took a baby from our times and swapped it with a baby from back then leaving to-days baby back then and bringing a baby from back then to hear now they would both grow up in there different times as if they where living in the right time, there would be no difference

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

No the Aztecs , Mayans  and Egyptians all came from a faraway planet the built some crazy buildings and decided that this was no place to bring up children So they went home

Answer 6

It's possible.  I have included these links below which are about how culture alters brain function.  

http://web.mit.edu/MCGOVERN/html/News_an...

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stori...

http://www.davedavies.com/splanet/realms...

Answer 7

This whole only using a small part of the brain thing is a myth to begin with.  Do a pet scan of the brain and for most people the whole thing will lit up with activity.  So we are using most parts of our brain already.

Answer 8

some of us neglect .

They all smoked weed , even further back to the Caucasian mummies found in the Tarim basin in the Hinterlands.

Answer 9

Your brain is a material function.It cannot speak

nor communicate.

They use the INTELLECT of the spirit, and suppernatural

ability to perform and progress.

Answer 10

Interesting question, the only thing I would suggest is that their lives were less secure than ours and they may have had a heightened sense of danger. But then again, they didn't have to worry about getting run over by a car.

Answer 11

The diffrence is less anatomical and more technological.

Without computers, and lazer levels the ancient civilizations accomplished much using simpiler tools and better experience.

We look at the jobs they did, and see no way to accompish them now without the aid of advanced technology...but this is merely a lack of imagination on our part.

since we have the technology we've abandoned the rules of thumb and line plumbs, and sextants of the past.

an archealogy student or professor couldnt likely build a modern day house either, but we have thousand of highschool educated workers who can.