Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent

Pertaining to our only using a small percentage of our brains: it could be, I'm not stating this as a fact or anything just theorizing, that if we were to unlock the rest of our brains it could merely be the equivalent of opening up the floodgates, that our brain would all of a sudden simply be interpreting a hell of a lot more sense data, most of it extraneous. It could also be that it would greatly enhance our analytic processes and that we'd be able to take radical new perspectives on all sorts of problems and make unheard of advancements, who knows. It certainly seems possible, however, that we evolved to only use a small portion of our brain because using the whole thing would be too cumbersome.