人类使用远不止10%的大脑.pdf

人类使用远不止10%的大脑

Humans Already Use Way, Way More Than 10 Percent of Their Brains

人类使用远不止10%的大脑

By now, perhaps you’ve seen the trailer for the new sci-fi thriller Lucy. It starts with a flurry of stylized special effects and Scarlett Johansson serving up a barrage

of bad-guy beatings. Then comes Morgan Freeman, playing a professorial neuroscientist with the obligatory brown blazer, to deliver the film’s familiar premise to a full lecture hall: “It is esti mated most human beings only use 10 percent of the brain’s capacity. Imagine if we could access 100 percent. Interesting things begin to happen.”

可能你已经看过了科幻惊悚片《超体》的预告。一开始是一连串极具个人风格的特效，接着

穿着标志性的斯嘉丽?约翰逊与坏人激烈打斗。然后摩根?弗里曼出场，饰演一个神经学家，

棕色大衣，在座无虚席的演讲厅里侃侃而谈关于这部电影著名的大前提：“据估计，人类使用不到大脑的10%的能力。想象一下如果我们能够100%充分利用我们的大脑，那会是多么

有趣的现象啊。”

Johansson as Lucy, who has been kidnapped and implanted with mysterious drugs, becomes a test case for those interesting things, which seem to include even

more impressive beatings and apparently some kind of Matrix-esque time-warping

skills.

约翰逊饰演的露西遭人绑架，被植入了神秘药物，成为了有趣现象的试验品。这些有趣现象

包括更多的打斗和黑客帝国式的时间扭曲能力。

Of course, the idea that “you only use 10 percent of your brain” is, indeed, 1 hundred percent bogus. Why has this myth persisted for so long, and when is it

finally going to die?

当然，“你仅使用了10%的大脑”这种想法100%是假的。为什么这种谣言被传了这么久，

什么时候才能消失呢？

Unfortunately, not any time soon. A survey last year by The Michael J. Fox

Foundation for Parkinson's Research found that 65 percent of Americans believe

the myth is true, 5 percent more than those who believe in evolution. Even Myth

busters, which declared the statistic a myth a few years ago, further muddied the

waters: The show merely increased the erroneous 10 percent figure and implied,

incorrectly, that people use 35 percent of their brains.

很遗憾，这不是很快就能发生的事。去年麦克?J?福克斯基金为帕金森综合症研究进行了一

项调查发现，65%的美国人相信这个谣言，比相信进化论的人还多5%。甚至在《流言终结

者》几年前宣称了这个数据只是谣言之后，也只是搅混了这趟水：这档节目只是增加了错误

的10%这个数字，暗指人类使用了35%的大脑。这也是不正确的。

Like most legends, the origin of this fiction is unclear, though there are some

clues. According to Sam Wang, a neuroscientist at Princeton and the author of

Welcome to Your Brain, the catalyst may have been the self-help industry. In the

early 1900s, William James, one of the most influential thinkers in modern