The very premise is false... our entire brains get used, the "you only use 10%" line is urban legend BS... maybe only 10% at a time... like you are only using 10% of the rooms in your house at any given moment, but that doesnt mean the other 90% are unused, and it would not do you alot of good to be in all of them at once even if you could be... so the basic premise is assinine, obviously from some numbskull who is just "imagining" what it might be like to be smart. Naturally, he gets it wrong... duh of course he is an idiot... so the story is pointless worthless and stupid.
On top of that I read half way through they sort of morph it into an action thriller. Like hollywood types do to everything else, to try and trick us out of our money, and because they have ZERO original ideas, this bunch of morons just try to redo one thing over and over... screw them.
Like Craig Ferguson said the other night, the really smart people are like brain surgeons and computer designers.... all the really stupid people end up in Hollywood simply because they are too dumb to do anything else, haha.
Would anyone care to explain this so that those of use who haven't seen the movie can understand?
^^^^^ so wrong (sorry i beg to differ DwayneHoover)
The movie was actually preety decent (i'd rate it up there with ''shutter island and ''Inception'')
its no way near a ''cautionary tale'' rather the opposite actully!!! lke superted66ireland6 he does take a wonder drug and become interlectual superman, gets rich and his world comes crashing down, but the way he hustles his way outr ofit to get back upto the top higher than he was b4 was quite intriguing.
I think most people browsing PD would enjoy this moviev
Would try explain the movie, but do a really shit job (soz) try wiki or best go watch it
Well that's great to hear then, I stand corrected. "It all comes crashing down" just sounded too typically anti-drug, I didn't want to go see it and end up pissed off.
It surprises me that you think that tbirdee. What about LSD? If it were not a myth about the 10 or 20% use of our brains I think that classic psychedelics unlock way more than stimulants. On stimulants I feel as if it gets sped up, not really increased qualitatively.
Actually maybe a modest dose of DOX plus piracetam would come closest but that would be pushing it. On DOB, I felt like a fucking supercomputer. Not that it was fun but it's the closest thing I can come up with.
Maybe we need to define what would be a quality output first. There are many modes of consciousness, and many which we can boost. But some increase attention span, enhance linear thinking, some allow better parallel thinking (piracetam does this for me). So what is needed for good scientific insight, or philosophical insight, or very simple analysis but at a high rate, or a complex thing like creativity...
Creativity for me depends on semi-random association, or even hyperassociation. So I think you will need both a psychedelic to boost it for the more non-sensical thought patterns to think of new things whether they make actual sense or not. And speeding up the total process, efficiency or attention while doing that would also help. But overdo it and you get hyperfocus which can turn into ADD-like symptoms and it falls apart.
The very premise is false... our entire brains get used, the "you only use 10%" line is urban legend BS... maybe only 10% at a time...
The movie was actually preety decent (i'd rate it up there with ''shutter island and ''Inception'')