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Next time you post random spam like that, I'm deleting it on the spot [unless it's in the Spam forum sweatdrop ]

My posts look so plain without it gonk .

people haven't yet discovered the full extent of the human mind.

In PET (not CAT) scans of the brain, which are used to track or find disease through the use of a radioactive substance called cyclotron, it shows all areas of the brain active and keep in mind that you're are conscious during such a procedure. This led me to believe how much of our minds we use, and we may not use all of it, since some are better at academics (left brained) than those who exceed in the arts (right brained). There are always those who can fit in both categories and use both sides but maybe not to the full extension. Perhaps when we are asleep the imaginative parts of our minds, which we can access whenever during the day or not, is able to think up something and run with it. Our subconscious mind maybe? There are also the parts of our brain, we have to remember, that take care of our organs and keep them running. Our brains tell them to do these jobs without our willing them to do so, thankfully keeping us alive through the night. We even use different parts of our brains during different activities, such as when we're watching TV, or playing a sport. They all use different parts. That's my theory. I'm always open to others. The unconscious part of the brain is an idea that intrigues me.

Wow, I spent the longest time thinking this theory was already proven. I mean, it has been known for some time now that the size of our brain does not mean anything about how smart we are, but if we used the full extent of our brains, don't you think it would have at least SOME effect?

There are hundreds of memories, also, that you might not even know are in your mind, yet when you hear the tune to that song you listened to so much when you were five, you feel like somehow it is familiar. Your mind tells you that you've heard it before, but the actual memories that you stored are a little too far back in the subconscious mind to bring to your immediate thoughts. To sum it up in a confusing manner: You know you know more than you know. If you can have memories that you are not able to fully access because they are too far submerged within the subconscious, it would make perfect sense that there is more to the subcoscious than you actually continue to use.

Well we only use 90% of our brains.

But anyways I don't think brain=mind. But using the iceberg thing I think we use out tip of the mind persay with everyday stuff that doesn't require much like the morning routine that we could do blindfolded [if it wasn't for my weird drift to the left or the sidewalk being tilted I could walk home from my school with my eyes closed] or even that really simple stuff you get occasionally at school.
The middle bit I think we use for more complex stuff or when you're sitting around pondering stuff.
And I deepest part I think we use only when we're really thinking hard at something or those times when you're sitting around pondering life and you actually come to an interesting conclusion, but I think the deepest part comes into play more than that, I think that the deepest part is responsible for those times when something really weird happens and your mind is like "wtf what happened there?!" and it tries to figure it out in the back of your mind while you're going about your life. Or when you have those little unintentional reasons for stuff like you're carrying a grudge and you forget about something

I think there is more to the mind then any scans or physcology can truly explain.

I also believe the body is no more than a vehicle.

So you're saying that the difference in intelligence between a mouse and a human has nothing to do with the fact that our brain is massively larger than its brain?

Sorry, but no. While to my knowledge cranial capacity is not correlated with intelligence on the micro level (I.e. people with small heads are not stupider than people with big heads,) it is on the macro level, i.e. big-brained humans are smarter than smaller-brained chimpanzees are smarter than tiny-brained lemurs.

Well I heard that it is the amount of wrinkles you have on your brain that determines how smart you are.