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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Human use of available intelligence.
Message-ID: <1685@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 15 Dec 88 18:02:08 GMT
References: <Dec.6.15.57.28.1988.9988@klaatu.rutgers.edu> <2768@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <Dec.8.18.59.38.1988.10409@klaatu.rutgers.edu> <659@htsa.uucp> <516@oracle.UUCP>
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In article <516@oracle.UUCP> pfry@oracle.UUCP (Philip M. Fry) writes:
>
>This reminds me of the often-stated but never-documented comment that people
>only use 15% of their available brain power.  How is this number derived?
>Any good references?

I think it was just an estimate, albeit one of Einstein's estimates.

				--Blair
				  "From the people who brought
				   you 'light travels at the same
				   speed in all frames of reference.'"