Lucy and The Myth

I really enjoyed Limitless so was looking forward to Lucy. This despite the use of the ten percent myth. Never let the truth get it the way of a good story. Unfortunately I was a bit disappointed with the story. Once limits are removed, it was almost like character got removed too. In  Philosophy by Nicholas Fearn, he talks about the problem with the modern remorse over us being 'at the mercy' of our particular drives or inclinations. If you take away our desires and personal characteristics, there is nothing left to be at the mercy of. There are some passes where Lucy hints at philosophical questions like self-identity, but it missed the mark for me. The question of how much of our potential we use is interesting though, and while 10% is a nice but unsubstantiated sound bite, I do think we can better use the time given us.

Wikipedia gives many refutations for the ten percent myth, this is one:

The brain is enormously costly to the rest of the body, in terms of oxygen and nutrient consumption. It can require up to 20% of the body's energy—more than any other organ—despite making up only 2% of the human body by weight.^[14][15] If 90% of it were unnecessary, there would be a large survival advantage to humans with smaller, more efficient brains. If this were true, the process of natural selection would have eliminated the inefficient brains. It is also highly unlikely that a brain with so much redundant matter would have evolved in the 

first place.