Lucy

Went to see the film Lucy a couple of days ago and besides being a very good action thriller it was also very thought provoking.

If their research is correct and I'm pretty sure it is, then most animals use about two point five percent of their brain and humans use only ten percent.  One could say look what we have managed to do with that ten percent.  You could also say look what we haven't done with that ten percent.  Yes we have built marvels of technology but at the same time we have driven our planet nearly to the edge of the largest mass extinction evident in history.

Compare that to the dolphin, the creature that is using twenty percent of its brain capacity and with it have developed an echo location system more advanced any human sonar.  That is mention in the movie.  What they don't mention in Lucy is a fact I learnt years ago from Carol Vorderman's program 'See Through Science' - the echo location of dolphins is so advanced that in shorter ranges it can actually see your skeleton.  It is a biological X-ray.  Dolphins have done that, not by working and fighting for it but rather by simply existing.

So does that film Lucy have a point when Morgan Freeman's character asks 'are humans more concerned with having rather than being?'  And the main question you have to ask is 'what could we do if we started using a higher percentage of our brains'?

I have to wonder because from the brain scan studies of autistics we already use different areas of our brains to homo sapiens so what doors are we opening?  Are autistics beginning to use a higher percent of our brains than homo sapiens?  Is that why we see so much more than 'normal' people?

I've been told that the reason that my brain over loads on information is because my 'editor' doesn't work.  I've always been told that normal humans have editors in their brains that cut out most of the details that they see and hear and that in autistics those editors do not work, hence why we can suffer from information over load and system crash.  But what if that is not true?  What if autistic are not so much 'editor broken' people but rather people who are more perceptive than other humans?  What if we are seeing more details because we are more whole than other people?

And besides speculation there still remains the estimation that eighty two percent of the human race now carry at least six to twelve of the genes involved with autism.  So, despite the fact that society has a problem with us, genetically we are viable.  So if our genetics continue to spread then eventually we will be the majority population, which means that eventually we will be able to shape society to suit us.

Society being changed by people who have a problem with change.  Isn't that divine irony?