03-23-2004, 02:55 PM
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The 10% thing is a myth, it doesn't exist, we aren't going to be able to use psychic powers unless the DNA is our body is mutated in some way that it doesn't kill you, or make you sick, or if we use genetic engineering (The spoon bending stuff, and tapping into the dead is fake). There is no "potential" of the brain, the reason why we advance is because we build off other things (and that's how we get smarter), and we are more aware of things now, that we can quickly find a solution to it, like you said before, we make the environment change.
Oh, allright. I just remember hearing more than a few times that we can only use something like 10% of our brains.
Either way, I figure that in the future, we'll evolve into humans kind of like that dude from the movie Powder, with the highly evolved mental abilities.
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I have been pondering about this for a while, although this is strange, since humans today are stronger than humans 100 years ago (mostly due to the awareness of nutrition and growth enhancements), can you go in depth with this?
That right there is a common misconception about evolution. That is an example of morphological change, which can occur without evolution (and vice versa). Humans are larger now than in the recent past, a result of better diet and medicine. Phenotypic changes, like this, induced solely by changes in environment do not count as evolution because they are not heritable; in other words the change is not passed on to the organism's offspring. Evolution is caused first by the mutation of a gene, followed by natural selection and then growth of the population. Better diet and medicine do not affect one's genes, and therefore don't count as evolution, because they are not passed on from generation to generation.
Therefore, change caused only by environmental conditions do not count as evolution. However, environmental conditions can indeed cause a change in the genetic makeup of a group of creatures, and will THEN cause evolution. Only as long as genetic changes are involved, and not simply physiological changes.
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