I’ve often wondered about the 10% claim. I was thinking maybe the remaining 90% was operating system.
It would require a TON of system resources to design something as complex as the human anatomy that runs with total autonomy but instantly sends a notification to your conscious brain when you feel a mosquito on your leg or something...
We use far less than 10%.
There are many parallel processing neuro circuits and we usually only use the slowest pathways.
In addition, the human brain is not the storage location or the processing location of consciousness. It is merely a transmission and receiving tool. You can totally destroy the physical body and the consciousness still exists. Further, all the memories experienced while it was anchored in the physical body are still there. I demonstrate this frequently in workshops when I present on the neuroscience of religion.