Is it true that we normally don't use 100 percent of our brains?plz read detailed question??

Question

i have read somewhere that we use only 10 percent of our brains. i searched on google search engine typing "we don't use 100% of our brains" and results suggest that it is a myth that we use only 10 percent. the result says that we use full 100 percent.if u have scientific proof that we use less than 100 percent, please explain me how scientifically with exact percentage and also the source of research/organisation. no rubbish answers plz, it means waste of time and money for u and me, u won't get best answer rating either.

Answer 1

If we were to only use 10%, it would both mean a huge waste of space in our bodies, but it would also mean that 90% of the time, if we were to get brain damage, we would not be affected by it. As it is, whenever a human sustains brain damage, their mental capacity is reduced, no matter where the damage occurs. This is proof that we use 100% of our brains, or at least of each hemisphere. The reason I say that is because there are people who have undergone hemispherectomies, where one half of the brain is removed, but they are still functional because the other side takes over. However, 100% functional is never achieved after that.

It is true, however, that we tend to use only a fraction of our brain capacity. But we do use 100% of our brains.

Answer 2

That expression is mainly used to draw attention to the capacity of trillions of neurons. You may find a percentage of brain not used by looking for capacity of brain. Carol Sagan discusses this in great detail in Cosmos. Can only use logic. When you use a PC you simply can't use hundred percent of it because areas have different functions, thou high percentage is used doing anything because everything is so interrelated. If you could recall all used neuron than you could relive your birth.    

Answer 3

I usually use only 3% of my brains. Why? Because the other 96% of my brain is intoxicated by alcohol.

Answer 4

The myth comes from a misreading of the fact that only about 10% of brain matter is actual neural tissue. The rest is fat, blood, and supporting tissue. Of the neural tissue, we use 100%.

Answer 5

we use our brain 100% but we use only 10% of our brain potential.

Answer 6

It turns out, that we use virtually every part of the brain, and that [most of] the brain is active almost all the time. Let's put it this way: the brain represents three percent of the body's weight and uses 20 percent of the body's energy. Although it's true that at any given moment all of the brain's regions are not concurrently firing, brain researchers using imaging technology have shown that, like the body's muscles, most are continually active over a 24-hour period. Even in sleep, areas such as the frontal cortex, which controls things like higher level thinking and self-awareness, or the somatosensory areas, which help people sense their surroundings, are active. Ultimately, it's not that we use 10 percent of our brains, merely that we only understand about 10 percent of how it functions.