I’d guess that you can suffer quite severe impairment from only a small amount of physical brain damage if the damage occurs in locations important for connecting different brain areas/capabilities. Information being “not lost, just inaccessible” seems realistic to me. However, I wouldn’t base this intuition on cases of terminal lucidity.
I’d guess that you can suffer quite severe impairment from only a small amount of physical brain damage if the damage occurs in locations important for connecting different brain areas/capabilities. Information being “not lost, just inaccessible” seems realistic to me. However, I wouldn’t base this intuition on cases of terminal lucidity.