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Bernard,
What you read may have been SuffleBrain by Paul Pietsch, who I posted about recently, or about Karl Pribram, who developed the theory that the brain, and memory, work like holograms. Memory then is not physically stored like a recording, but is a process of being constructed and reconstructed.
When I read Pietsch's book, it made clear that the brain has the ability to "remember" repair itself even on a cellular level. Therefore, even though my right temporal lobe was destroyed, there was plenty of reason to believe that what remained, i.e., the left temporal lobe should be able to "remember" it's deceased twin and regain those lost skills and abilities. I did a lot of visualizing to try and get this to occur.
Six years later the surgeons did brain mapping to determine where to operate in my second brain surgery. They were shocked to discover that many functions that are normally found in the right hemisphere, types of memory and language, and motor skills, were being performed by my left hemisphere.
Think of skills, like language and writing not as being physically stored, but as being dynamic processes, patterns of brain activity. So, when my temporal lobe was removed, the memories\skills were not lost, but the pattern, or ability to follow the pattern was impaired. These patterns, like a hologram can be redeveloped which happens as we see when people recover from physical damage to the brain. Like when roads are washed out in a storm, the brain has to assess the damage and develop alternate routes.
Take a look at Zolt's scans. Then picture his brain consciously directing itself to develop new nerve pathways, new patterns to go around the damaged area and redevelop whatever funcitions were in the area destroyed. That may make his great recovery, and that of others, more understandable.
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What you read may have been SuffleBrain by Paul Pietsch, who I posted about recently, or about Karl Pribram, who developed the theory that the brain, and memory, work like holograms. Memory then is not physically stored like a recording, but is a process of being constructed and reconstructed.
When I read Pietsch's book, it made clear that the brain has the ability to "remember" repair itself even on a cellular level. Therefore, even though my right temporal lobe was destroyed, there was plenty of reason to believe that what remained, i.e., the left temporal lobe should be able to "remember" it's deceased twin and regain those lost skills and abilities. I did a lot of visualizing to try and get this to occur.
Six years later the surgeons did brain mapping to determine where to operate in my second brain surgery. They were shocked to discover that many functions that are normally found in the right hemisphere, types of memory and language, and motor skills, were being performed by my left hemisphere.
Think of skills, like language and writing not as being physically stored, but as being dynamic processes, patterns of brain activity. So, when my temporal lobe was removed, the memories\skills were not lost, but the pattern, or ability to follow the pattern was impaired. These patterns, like a hologram can be redeveloped which happens as we see when people recover from physical damage to the brain. Like when roads are washed out in a storm, the brain has to assess the damage and develop alternate routes.
Take a look at Zolt's scans. Then picture his brain consciously directing itself to develop new nerve pathways, new patterns to go around the damaged area and redevelop whatever funcitions were in the area destroyed. That may make his great recovery, and that of others, more understandable.
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