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To my knowledge there's no evidence he was missing 90% of his brain—he may have had a normal number of brain cells that were being severely compressed by the fluid in his skull.
Here's another article with more details, and you can't compress brain cells by 90% https://rifters.com/real/articles/Science_No-Brain.pdf