You only use 10% of your brain / Lucy

Atlantic: "Humans Already Use Way, Way More Than 10 Percent of Their Brains"
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/you-already-use-way-way-mo...

By the way, DO NOT WATCH LUCY. It's terrible, just terrible. It's up there with that Johnny Depp face-plant, Transcendence—and that's saying something. That Lucy has arguably the most beautiful woman on the planet (Scarlett Johansson's), or its most beautiful voice (Morgan Freeman), in every single scene makes the wonder of it suckitude even more impressive. Luc Besson has done some amazing stuff. But I'm not sure he should ever be allowed to direct anything again.

How often does that myth have to be debunked. For the record, I was much more interested in a movie named Lucy when I thought it was about https://iho.asu.edu/about/lucy%E2%80%99s-story

The myth is pushed by Scientology so it will require constant debunking as long as they're active.

>1 timspalding: I am sorry but so they really allow people to publish articles when they can write stuff like "I’m still going to see Lucy, if only because it’s directed by Luc Besson and The Fifth Element blew my 10-year-old mind when it came out". That is an obvious slur to people of a normal respectable age IMOHO. ;-)

I read another article commenting on the topic which stated that the "10% of the brain" thing was cutting edge - in 1970.

The Atlantic Review is 1,000% better than the movie:
"Lucy: The Dumbest Movie Ever Made About Brain Capacity"
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/07/life-is-futile-so-heres...

The New Yorker Review, though ultimately negative, thinks it's worth a good blather. It's not.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/luc-bessons-surprisingly-metaphys...

"I've translated Lucy for you."
https://twitter.com/rena_linn/status/494610048786915329

Ow.

>6 timspalding:
That is freaking hilarious!

Your links (2 and 6 above) are dead. I suggest not paying attention to film reviews about science fiction, because most reviewers don't have much patience with science fiction. (Example -- Paycheck (Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman), which most reviewers dismissed. Paycheck was based on the Philip Dick short story of the same name.)