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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: What's with this 10% statistic?
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minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
>>Monica Stewart <monica@compumedia.com> wrote:
>>true (and in the case of the brain, I think it is all being used).

      The 10% figure is ancient and doesn't reflect any real data,
but it's interesting to look at some of the recent PET scan data
showing electrical activity in different parts of the brain.
Different parts go active depending on what's going on.  It's kind
of like power-saving modes in a laptop.  That's to be expected,
given that much of the brain is special-purpose hardware.

					John Nagle
