Argumentative Essay On Lucy

Kenig Ramones Professor Paul Sorensen English 1112 36L 13 November 2017 Lucy During the 18th century, William James an American philosopher stated that humans only use the ten percent of their cerebral capacity. However, in today’s society scientist had even stated that the 10% myth is not true. Therefore, the main question in this essay is “Can we use the 100% of our brain?” To answer this question, we have to think outside the box and beyond. Lucy is a scientific movie created by Luc Besson and produced by his wife Virginie Besson that came out in the summer of 2014. The movie is about a girl named Lucy who gets a packet of drugs known as CPH4 sewn inside of her. CPH4 is a natural product found in the sixth week of pregnancy. What this drug
However, scientist today had proven that the myth is not true. In fact, we use pretty much every part of our brain, and a lot of those parts are active most of the time. Neurologist, Krish Sathian in his YouTube video, “Lucy: Debunking The 10% Brain Myth”, published in 2014 addressed the topic that all humans use more than 10% of their brains. Also as many scientists today he also stated that the 10% myth is not true. He supported his claim by saying “we use all of our brains much of the time, whether we are reading a book, or listening to music or walking around town or even sleeping”. The way how he was so confident about his statement was because he said that neuro-imaging techniques like PET scans and MRIs actually let us see the brain in action. Those scans proved to show that nearly every region of the brain lights up even during simple tasks, like walking and talking, but most importantly, it proved that over the course of any given day we use just about all our brain. Besides, he also left his statement clear by explaining that we don’t use all of our brains at once. Sathian’s purpose was to explain to viewers that we use more of our brains instead of just
In children, that figure is 50% and in infants, 60%. This is far expected for their relative brain sizes, which scale in proportion to body size. Human one’s weight 1.5 kilograms, elephant brains 5 kilograms, and whale brains 9 kilograms. Yet on a per weight basis, humans pack in more neurons than any other species. This dense packing is what makes us so smart. There is a trade-off between body size and the number of neurons a primate including us, can sustain. A 25-kilogram ape has to eat 8 hours a day to uphold a brain with 53 billion neurons. The invention of cooking, ½ million years ago, gave us a huge advantage. Cooked food is rendered soft and predigested outside of the body. Our guts more easily absorb its energy. Cooking frees up time and provides more energy than if we ate foodstuffs raw and so we can sustain brains with 86 billion densely packed neurons, 40% percent more than the ape. The way how it works is that half of the calories a brain burns go towards simply keeping the structure intact by pumping sodium and potassium ions across membranes to maintain an electrical charge. To do this, the brain has to be an energy