I have a feeling this condition might be much more prevalent than assumed.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The man’s skull was full of liquid, with just a thin layer of brain tissue left.

This came out to be 84, which is slightly below the normal range … So, this person is not bright — but perfectly, socially apt," explains Axel Cleeremans.

When he learned about the case, which was first described in The Lancet in 2007, he saw a medical miracle — but also a major challenge to theories about consciousness.

Last month, Cleeremans gave a lecture about this extremely rare case at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness conference in Buenos Aires.

[There’s a] second lesson perhaps, if you’re interested in consciousness — that is the manner in which the biological activity of the brain produces awareness … One idea that I’m defending is the idea that awareness depends on the brain’s ability to learn.

These cases are definitely a challenge for any theory of consciousness that depends on very specific neuro-anatomical assumptions.

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The debunked myth of using 10% of our brains has been rebunked!

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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.

I wouldn’t say Trump‘s life was normal