I was wondering how we knew he used a larger percentage of his brain capacity than normal humans if we did not have the technology at the time to find this out.

I found this article. Anymore?

http://eileen.250x.com/Main/Einstein/EinsteinBrain.html

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7/6/2011 11:12:26 PM

I thought this thread was about telepopmusik.

7/6/2011 11:15:18 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein%27s_brain

7/6/2011 11:15:50 PM

good lord how do you even read that site.... It's rendering text all over the place on my machine.

7/6/2011 11:17:38 PM

Midnight Star, I wanna know.

7/6/2011 11:17:51 PM

I think it's a bunch of nonsense.

He's just a really fucking bright guy.

That happens sometimes. In fact it's happens quiet a number of times throughout history. Why aren't we here contemplating Wigner's brain for that matter?

...

In fact, we should talk about the times Einstein was wrong... and in a real way not in a can we put in on a Magazine cover kind of way.

Look up Einstein with respect to Lemaître. That's always fun.

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7/6/2011 11:18:36 PM

We actually have Einsteins brain, that's why. We can speculate that there were beneficial abnormalities in any of the great thinkers, but we won't really know.

7/6/2011 11:24:56 PM

To be fair, I wouldn't actually be surprised if there was something a bit fundamentally different about him. Maybe the visual processor thing might be valid.

The more important thing is that he was extremely clever.

7/6/2011 11:28:26 PM

Since I am at least as intelligent as Einstein, I feel an obligation to weigh in on this - the answer you seek is right in the palm of your hands.


[eerie music....fade out]

7/6/2011 11:28:47 PM

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"good lord how do you even read that site.... It's rendering text all over the place on my machine."

sorry.

As for thinking of someone else, I am just asking how do we come up with this conclusion? I know from what I am reading a part of his brain is larger than normal humans.

I just want to know how to make my brain larger and how I can tap into all of it? I would like to know if it is true that he used more of his brain than most then how did he do it? Is it genetics? Are there exercises that I can do? Should I eat certain things? Einstein lifestyle?

7/6/2011 11:29:35 PM

^^

That would be funnier if I was, in fact, dual working this website.

But I'm not...

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7/6/2011 11:29:59 PM

^^

If you want to become smarter and more clever, the best and easiest thing you can do is read more.

If you have the willpower, you need to sit down and start solving problems. If you're interested in physics or mathematics... you need to start solving physics and mathematics problems... a whole slew of already worked out problems first. Usually this is difficult for the vast majority of people to do.

7/6/2011 11:32:27 PM

I guess I want to be a robot.

7/6/2011 11:37:53 PM

yeah, it doesn't work like that

I guess I don't understand what you mean.

If you want to become good at something, you practice, right?

Physics, and all sciences, are essentially the study of solving problems.

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7/6/2011 11:39:11 PM

ok...so I am watching a TV show (fake) where a kid is learning how to do everything all at once and he is doing it at a rapid rate learning EVERY THING that he comes into contact with like he is a computer.
There was a reference to Einstein's brain capacity compared to this kid's and it got me to think how do we know Einstein's capacity? Also how he was able to reach his capacity originally as a patent clerk? Then it got me to thinking, I wonder if we in the future will learn this way? Computationally? (Even though this show is not real, I can't help to think that technology will allow this in the future.)

7/6/2011 11:57:11 PM

My (admittedly limited) time with psychology indicates that any reference to "brain capacity" is a joke. As yet, we have no idea how to measure how much information that organ can hold or how fast it can process it (regardless of size).

This is not to say that all brains are created equal -- I think it's self-evident that they aren't -- but in terms of measurement, we've got nothing.

7/7/2011 12:18:00 AM

I should have said this earlier but

paging egyeyes.

I am so fascinated by the brain for sure. I had a mini stroke back in March and still have no answers as to what happened because this organ is such a mystery.

7/7/2011 12:23:49 AM

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroanatomist who gives a fascinating lecture on her experience while having a stroke. If you're interested in the human brain, it's one of those must listens. I think it's on YouTube.

7/7/2011 12:29:35 AM

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"I was wondering how we knew he used a larger percentage of his brain capacity than normal humans if we did not have the technology at the time to find this out."

forget "brain percentage," as it is bunk. a better way of describing brain function is plasticity, or how connections between neurons can change. your brain adapts to sensory input and rearranges as you learn.

7/7/2011 1:09:12 AM

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"connections between neurons can change"

i was unaware of this.


i will be looking this up later.

7/7/2011 1:16:41 AM