Why harvest brains from Los Angeles???
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billyfish — 14 years ago(March 05, 2012 12:52 PM)
I'll bite. It was LA for 99% of the film, and at the end they showed a few other world cities that had been conquered, including NYC and London, and maybe a couple of others (Hong Kong?) that I didn't get a good look at
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king_of_bob — 14 years ago(August 26, 2011 10:42 AM)
They're most likely using brains in place of processors. The people whose brains are taken are not in control of the machines.
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zender8584 — 14 years ago(November 01, 2011 04:22 PM)
Thank you for addressing the "we only use X% of our brains" silliness. While this is nonesense, at times I wonder if the people who believe this are the few that IN FACT do only use 4%. Analogous to only those that believe in a given religion get to go to that religion's version of heaven.
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king_of_bob — 14 years ago(November 02, 2011 04:48 AM)
The idea that we only use a certain portion of our brain is absolutely ridiculous, and only shows that people who make such a suggestion don't really understand how the brain works at all.
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Ro_Rahm — 14 years ago(November 08, 2011 08:56 AM)
king, youre a dum-dum. to say that 'if we only use 4% of our brains, then we can destroy 96%' was a dum-dum argument. it is said that we only use 4% of what our brains should theoretically be capable of using. not that theres a 4% chunk of our brain that we use and the other 96% is just squishy filler.
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king_of_bob — 14 years ago(November 09, 2011 04:51 AM)
king, youre a dum-dum.
Oh this should be good
to say that 'if we only use 4% of our brains, then we can destroy 96%' was a dum-dum argument.
No, the suggestion that we only use 4% of our brain is an idiotic argument, since it's factually incorrect.
it is said that we only use 4% of what our brains should theoretically be capable of using.
That saying is flat out wrong. Even if we were only using 4% of our brains potential, we're still not only using 4% of our brain. The two mean completely different things.
Also, how exactly do you measure what the brain is potentially capable of if nobody has ever used 100% of their brains potential?
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Ratchapakinai — 12 years ago(July 31, 2013 11:29 PM)
This is true, but how old are the people who think we only use x% of our brains? This concept has been explained to be untrue years ago. I assume the people who still believe are either stupid, kids or american. Or all of the above.
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MuggySphere — 12 years ago(February 17, 2014 12:23 AM)
According to this article people can function with only half of their brain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy
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dubbzo — 12 years ago(March 13, 2014 07:57 AM)
not sure why nobody actually answered this question
but unless it was entirely meant as a joke, the question doesn't exactly make sense, because they were harvesting brains from all over the planet.. at the end they showed other cities around the world.
the story we see is just following these certain people for whatever reason.
as for what % of the brain people use work 3rd shift retail, there are plenty of people that use a very low percentage of their brains power.
also, not to argue the point of whether humans in general use all their brain power or not doesn't mean that 90% or 96% of the brain is completely not used, but it's like a car's engine if you step on the gas just a little you are only using a small percentage of the engine's power, that certainly doesn't mean you could remove 90% of the engine and it would still run.